Also, looking at the block explorer and on C-CEX, it's a good sign to see that there are not a whole lot of coins for sale or even held in the exchange wallets.

Most of the coins have been pulled for staking. It would cost a lot of BTC to even grab a million TKT at this point. My guess as POS matures and the DEV rolls out TKT2.0 which has already been forked on GIT, the coin will move up in price, staking will further increase, and good things will come.   I think this coin in many ways flew under the radar for quite a while.