I spoke about the following ideas during BeyondBitcoin episode 200, give it a listen if you're interested! RSVP thread Raw recording

Potential BOINC project for Bitshares

Bitshares Testnet Load Generator!

It was mentioned in the latest Bitshares hangout that the Bitshares testnet stress test may have been limited due to a lack of resources available for creating a larger transaction volume - what about creating a BOINC project to distribute this software out to a few thousand computers around the world?

Such a project would be unlikely rewarded by Gridcoin due to the bursty nature of stress testing, unfortunately. You could distribute an UIA to your volunteers by adding a Bitshares field to their account profile.

The 3000+ TX/s rate achieved in the recent Bitshares testnet stress-test was great, but let's try to push it to 3 million per second!

Relevant links:
Bitshares testnet stress-test thread

Bitshares fullnode distribution

Alongside the testnet load generator, you could distribute full node servers out to volunteers to supply additional network resources to the Bitshares network. This would require a proof of bandwidth credit mechanism to be created.