Tranz, have you looked at the HUSH and ZEN wallets? They forked from ZCASH in some way and are java based, clean and quick to sync with minimal connections. HUSH also joined SuperNET DEX.

ZEN is implementing NODE incentive where 3.5% of every block mined is paid to the node operators. Just requires static IP and creating a certificate for your node, but I think that is more for ZEN's encrypted transactions than the node itself.

POS is nice but it doesn't encourage keeping wallets online except when they are ready to stake. Node incentive makes for a good sized pool of wallets online at all times in order to reap incentive payments as block creation continues.

HBN with the following would become a defacto coin to be held and used for a long time:

1. 90 second POS blocktime to reduce resource overhead
2. Removal of PoW as a block creation method to stabilize the blockchain and reduce orphans
3. Change in coin production per block to accommodate the change in block times, plus possible node incentives
4. Change in code base from a QT based client to the newer Java swing wallets will lower resource usage and encourage more users to be online, and possibly run incentive nodes
5. Possibly look at adding the SuperNET DEX to the core... join SuperNET and we would no longer need to worry about any exchange hosting HBN for trading

All of those are challenging and time consuming and I (we) in no way expect you to do any of that Tranz, though you have already made such good progress on 1 and 2 above. But the possibilities there are awesome!