The new NXT 2.0 (Ardor platform) with a goal to enhance scaleability, a problem yet to be solved by any blockchain-based crypto, could revive interest in the coin. At some point people should start looking past Bitcoin, at what other projects can offer to improve their lives.

Developers have just released a new 1.11.2 maintenance package of NXT 1.0. A stake in NXT 1.0 will give a stake in the default child chain in NXT 2.0 to be released some time in Q3 2017. A stake can be earned by running a public node as described in the post above.