I think this quote from smooth summarizes SDC rather effectively.
There are no other cryptonote-based coins in the top 100 on coinmarketcap besides XMR and BCN.
SDC uses a cryptonote-based design for their anonymous tokens, which is a bit different in terms of coin design and doesn't share code but the cryptography is almost identical.
They call it "zero knowledge solution" though.
Perhaps that is self descriptive.
I didn't see "XMR" or "BCN" in the title of this thread. The shameless promotion "distills" the "essence" of your motives here.
Interesting bit of information I found in the comment section of the recent SDC article regarding Cryptonote, which is why I'm glad SDC doesn't share it's codebase.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoNote#NSA_involvement"Darknote" is also a CN based coin in the top 100
What is that supposed to imply? You do realize that the NSA has a hand in an extensive variety of cryptography research, right? You use algorithms and protocols developed with NSA funding on a daily basis. Furthermore, all of the things listed on that article are speculation.
I'm not implying anything, you should contact the poster on wikipedia to find out what they are implying. Apparently that post is related to CN based coins not SDC. I'm simply saying I'm glad that controversy isn't related to SDC since it is Bitcoin based.