Excellent hangout guys.

It was mentioned 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.