"Waves is the blockchain transport layer with Waves token being the fuel of the entire platform,
Transaction fees, issuance fees and all other platform fees?
Bridge currency on built in exchange?
Did I understand it correctly?
as far as I can tell waves will act like a decentralized version of havelock exchange, (coloured tokens will be created to produce the equivalent of trading shares to take the place of paper shares normally issued through crowdfunding ventures which as a result are illiquid and untradeable), while being a fiat gateway for trading currency pairs within a waves token based gateway. (and allowing crowdfunded projects to be traded for fiat rather than waves/BTC) this in turn will generate more income for full Nodes( as well as possibly openning the door to a decentralized forex exchange system with low to no fees).
nodes of waves will be the collector of the transaction fees... there will be 0 more coins issued(have no idea how waves will deal with lost coins except that maybe it will cause deflation)
but I am no expert. this is just how I think they are summarizing there platform.