Bitshares is currently running at 700,000 - 900,000 transactions per day, which is more than Bitcoin and Eth combined. And it is doing so with zero delays, zero security issues and transaction times that average ~ 3 seconds. If you value a crypto token by transactions, ie. actual real world use, BTS is the No. 1 crypto in the world by a huge margin. It has been stress tested to > 10,000 transactions per second and the current Graphene chain can handle 100,000 transactions per second.

The HERO contest kicked off July 4th and aims to increase BTS to ~ $300/BTS over the next 18 months. It sounds ridiculous until you understand what the contest is doing - taking a 5% cash savings account to the mass market. Can you image if you had an app, web wallet or desktop wallet that you could deposit your savings into and get 5% interest paid in realtime, with zero counterparty risk and instant liquidity? Right now the best you can do on a cash savings account is ~ 0.5%. The HERO contest is aiming to bring a gigantic flood of fiat that is desperate for a safe place to park wealth and earn decent interest.

Anyone buying BTS right now is likely to be very, very happy in a year or two.