What's PeerShares?
I'm glad you asked
because PeerShares is the very reason I'm so bullish on Peercoin. You can check it out here:
http://peershares.net/But simply put, peershares allows anyone to easily create their own PoS based shares as a separate block chain. These shares can be traded on exchanges similarly to altcoins in general. However, it has built into the PeerShares protocol that the issuer of the shares can easily send dividends to all the shareholders. The dividends will be sent as peercoins.
Simple use case for PeerShares:
You have a great idea of another Satoshi Dice implementation. You create 1000000 shares out of thin air and sell them to investors. Now when your project starts generating revenue you are going to pay dividends to the shareholders but thanks to PeerShares you don't have to track the ownership of the shares yourself. Instead you will just throw the peercoins into the PeerShares network as dividends and they become available to every shareholder accordingly to their share. The shareholders can sell their shares even OTC if they wanted to.