Stop taking the piss.
When they started, Masternodes and anon was a big thing, which it isn't anymore. It may even become a felony to use stuff like that, under rising regulation. Vendors could be obliged to provide backdoors for law enforcement. This might not fit in with the delusional points of view of most of your team members and cheer leaders, but its the truth, and you better face it, since you were starting as a strictly commercial project. Bad decisions, kind of a failure, but Chris probably has no choice without losing his main poster boys.
Anonymity is still going to be a huge thing for any business using blockchain technology, which is why JP Morgan were researching ZCash.
Do you really think there wont be a deal struck?
Do you really think blockchains will be used with no anonymity going forward?
This why Stratis explored this so they could provide this service to businesses who want to use this kind of distributed ledger.
Businesses will in the future be able to hide what they do from you and I, but not from the government...or are you imagining something else? If so what are you imagining?
Chris Trew realised this. He realised that he would would need to provide that. Think about this from the point of view of a business.
Now this doesn't mean that Stratis will succeed or that the price will go up, but it explains what they are doing