It is very important figure. 15% is a big one, and as the report states that 15% of Americans send their cryptos overseas.
DASH team has chosen right places to expand DASH community.
The next year might see sweet results from the expansion of DASH into American continent.

I am not sure about how correct you are discussing, but the fact is most (or all) of crypto projects are open-sourced ones.
However, it doesn't mean that we all don't know where are original sources of breaking ideas, right?
We all know that bitcoin is the king, the start (almost like this) of crypto world.
Addtitionally, CatoCoin stated that the coin based on codes of others, Bitcoin, DASH, PIVX, and adjusted with their own breaking ideas, codes to make Catocoin source codes and lauched the project weeks ago.
Patent or without patent, it doesn't make sense (at least in my stance), but the CatoCoin team have done great works till now, honestly.
 

Yes, you should not rush to apply as a merit source. If yes (what you did), please apply because you want to help others (good members), don't apply because you will get more merit as a merit source. I recommend this (maybe unecessary for you due to you have had clear objectives to be here and to be a merit source) because in the future, we might see new rank, higher than Ledgandary (Lambo as someone proposed) based on merit points received.

Anyway, thanks for your topic.