Dev still hasn't said anything about the raptor algo. According to posts above this coin is a near 1:1 clone of Denarius coin. ANN states new Algo. This is not a new algo.
Any explanations?
It's not a clone of Denarius, just the algo is very similar except it uses different hashing functions. The 80 byte first hash is something that was unique to tribus, which is probably why people are drawing links between the two.