Let me fill you all in on how we are doing business. I travel to conferences, meet people on skype, and discuss opportunities with everyone in the industry. When ever anyone has a good idea for a DAC that can actually be implemented, then we partner with them to help make it a reality. What we provide is time, consulting, and the contribution of our own R&D to the core blockchain transaction design and all of the relevant economic engineering. We then let our partners focus on all user-facing issues including branding, user interface, marketing, and business development. In exchange for getting our help in this partnership everyone we talk to is usually willing to go 50/50 with us on the venture and they consider our minimal 20/80 split to be a major win for them.
Sure someone could create a DAC without us, but I can tell you that despite a $1 million dollar hack-a-thon sponsored by BitAngels for people to develop and propose innovative DAC ideas (similar to our planned Shark Tank) the winning proposal came from Super3 for the creation of a decentralized storage service based in a large part on his consultation with me on my prior work on Tornet (
https://github.com/bytemaster/tornet) which I was working on prior to inventing BitShares X. I was one of the judges in this competition and many of the BitAngels crew recognized the weak showing. If $1 million dollars in bounties results in the best ideas still being inspired in part from my work, then I can assure you the value of our consultation and perspective is easily worth 20%.
Someone could go it alone, but their chances of success increase if they can work with us.
This conference we landed a partnership with a *major* player in the music industry who has both the funding, connections, and desire to fully back the development of BitShares Music. In other words, the major DACs will likely be developed in partnership with us and thus honor AGS and PTS because despite the best attempts to propose new DACs, I have yet to see any truly viable (complete) DAC ideas coming from outside us.