Yes we are aware of the slow block times and and a bloated chain. This and the lack of staking wallets has caused issues and the call to get it fixed has gone out. From my understanding that is in progress, I would love to give you an ETA but that is yet to be decided. We often try to spur activity on the chain after work with transactions, please feel free to join us. Due to the wallet download time and some freezing issues with bloat, many only run the wallet sporadically or rely on the exchanges. I know for a fact Bittrex would not stake coins and Polo is tough to communicate with and all my efforts are met with low level service ticket responses.

So please hang tight and together we will rock a meaningful block time. I think 30 seconds is a bit to fast for a charitable coin...
Thanks for caring!
Hey, no ETA required, I would hate to hear a date and it not happen because thats when you start getting FUD etc. I also agree that 30 seconds might be a bit quick, 60 seconds would probably be more reasonable.
With regards to "joining you" I'm staking, I don't have tons of coins, only about 300,000 but they are staking and wallet has been online since I got it fixed with the bootstrap the other day (provided by a user here and worked beautifully), feel free to send me a few million and I'll help strengthen the network some more ;p
Shame Trex won't take and oyu have a hard time getting hold of Polo (perhaps try their IRC channel, you can usually get in touch there with an admin who can put you in contact with the right person/people to talk to).