Bittrex is pretty much the only place to buy BTS in quantity right now. Polo has volume but they disable withdrawals randomly and if you don't already have a verified account you are stuck at $2k per day to withdraw, huge pain in the ass.
@stan is doing some interesting stuff with the HERO token and his goal is pump BTS to $330 in 12-18 months. So far he has been heavy on hype and light on results, but it does sound like there are big things happening in the background. We will see.
Liquidity has been growing slowly but a DEX by nature does not have direct on/off ramps for fiat, which is the current reason everyone is still risking centralized exchanges. The biggest news for liquidity is Bitspark announcing they are going to run their entire remittance business on the DEX. This could be a complete game changer and bring millions of dollars in daily volume to the DEX.
Congrats on your UIA! I'll check out your posts and see what you've been up to...
Thanks for the tip re: Bittrex - I have been having issues well below the 2K mark trying to secure BTS, a couple hundred dollars moves markets. The last time I purchased with a few hundred AUD via ETH, I paid a 50% premium when all was said and done.
Understand the difficulty of decentralized exchange and fiat on/off ramps though. For now I just fund my account with Steemit revenue.
That is rather interesting news about Bitspark, BTS incredibly cheap if that sort of volume eventuates ...
If you send me your Bitshares address, I'll send you some free BUILDTEAM tokens so you can have a go in the next bidding round :)