The poloniex wallet thread is a prime example and use case of what needs to be pitched to these other exchanges along with their user base, for making an intelligent business decision to integrate into the Open Ledger project and not use these other "closed source" side chain hack jobs.
could you be more specific? Are you talking about polo's UI?
Sure, the thread I'm referring to is here
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,19011.0.htmltl;dr
On POLO's website (aka trading page) they were showing they had 25M BTS on the trading books, but their BTS wallet only showed around 12M BTS... so clayop raised a red flag and challenged them to prove POLO was indeed holding a 25M BTS supply as they claimed. In the end, which only took a day I think, POLO showed us their other BTS storage wallets and thus, able to show they DO in fact, actually have those BTS in their possession and everything matched to their exchange stats.
I can attest personally after seeing/reading that, that made me feel WAY more comfortable sending POLO my hard earned money and trade into BTS.
I can't speak for the other crypto's they carry/trade since those coins and their associated wallets aren't open to the public. So who know's without a doubt that those numbers are 100% honest and correct for those other Alts? I'm not accusing POLO of cooking any of their other books; I'm just pointing out flaws in the system (as most of us are already aware of) and we just proved to the financial world (through this current event) that BTS truly can make a difference and protect the end user!!!
Now, just image if ALL those coins along with ALL those exchanges in the world made this change to use Bitshares as their back end... everything can be 100% verified and accounted for. NO funny money, scams or bogus IOU's and can be easily tracked by the end users/investors. Well... until stealth gets implemented LOL.