Some say 2018 will be the year of the "platform", maybe Heat should be recognised as a platform too rather than just a simple token.
Exactly, so we're well prepared already by being ahead of our time.
HEAT = H.E.A.T. Ledger = HEAT Platform = a LOT of stuff in addition to the coin, most of which is focused one at a time when appropriate. Of these we're still wrapping up one of the largest building blocks for the platform, being the EUR integration and its intertwined legally compliant ITO (funded by BTC, EUR, HEAT, Eth..) infrastructure.