Looks like the network is getting a bit more active, between having (seemingly) more people involved and the splitting Griffith was talking about, the block time is starting to look a lot better.
splitting is a key factor in all PoS, since there is no proof-of-work mining to ensure a new block comes out every X minutes, the transactions that stake need to split to ensure that there is always a transaction available to stake for a block.
If coins have been sitting in a wallet for months do they need to be moved to another address to start staking or will they just start staking how they are?