The BENCH team is really working on the unification. Bitshares will have the option of adopting what that team is working on. Either way, Bitshares will be the token on BENCH according to @stan. This will help to keep his "do no harm to Bitshares" belief in play.
STEEM is a big mystery since the development team provides no guidance one way or another regarding EOS.
This is the missing part in the article and the part which I thought was meant to link EOS and BTS. I'm trying to get my head around how it works. For example you say BENCH will use BTS token notnits own, does that mean if someone wants to transition from say ETH to another chain using BENCH, they would use the BTS DEX and convert first to BTS then to whatever coin they want ?
That was my recommendation to the Bench team. What they actually do is up to them.