Examining the Wavi code further .... this is obviously a fork of Dash.

The same code I note above .... right down to the comments ... is in the Dash code.

The only change the Wavi developer seems to have made is to the max block reward (reduced from 500 to 50).

It curious that a coin designed to be long term CPU-only so quickly exits what is referred to as the "CPU mining era".

It would be interesting to hear from the dev regarding this design decision.