When it comes to tokens HUNT Tokens are pretty much the only SMT with a solid plan for a valuable token. To my knowledge you can still get rewarded in STEEM/SBD. So I can treat the tokens as bit of an extra and sell them. Eventually more solid SMTs would come out and even the existing SMT projects under development will make the ecosystem better.
I've been interested in ways for the markets to solve the need for bidbots. I made a suggestion post and end up getting zero responses: https://steemit.com/dlike/@vimukthi/will-dlike-replace-voting-bots-in-future-a-modest-proposal-for-rewarding-content-discovery-and-incentivized-curation
Still waking but will check it soon. I am already going to at least blame you for soon delegating to dlike.
SMTs will allow payment in up to 3.tokens, vests (SP) being a compulsory payment. Depending on the SP the SMTs manage they could viably continue to pay in also SBD, of course. But RC delegated pools may change that mechanic, or should I rather say that habit many Steemians have a brilliant nose for.
FYI, Steemhunt has partnered strategically with Tokenomia.
PS: feel free to ping me in Discord such posts. I love reading insights and thoughts about that.