Thank you for sharing this information and starting your series of posts on this topic.
It will be interesting to see how SMTs are implemented and if there will be a synergistic bridge built between the future Steemit Token DEX and the Bitshares DEX to allow them to work together and/or port over current UIA to SMT so people like yourself don't have to recreate a manage tokens on both.
@steempowerpics - I wish to see the bridge between SMT and Bitshares based tokens. It is always a wise choice to drive such initiatives for the community empowerment..... It should be a huge task I feel