To be honest I'm not entirely sure what the snapshot code is doing. I know it was built to integrate into peerplays but due to some complications over the holidays the 3speak team wanted to run the claim on hive. My hope is that several nodes running what should be an identical snapshot will act as an oracle when called by several nodes in this network that also runs a dex. To that end we're only running the verification code to my knowledge and not the ppy databasing... I'm aware of calls made to hiveAPIs in the snapshot code; feel free to drop into our discord and help us verify things. I've only been at building this for 2 weeks, and only got working snapshot code 2 days ago.