[...] 2.57M after 3 months heading into the 2nd high dpos phase [...]
You got me there, OP text is misleading. I vote for an OP cleanup Look at the graph. The 2nd stage of high rewards in ~3 months, is not just PoS. It is also PoW.
Market cap at current 16k price is 160 BTC for all Axiom coins