Hey Nightz, thanks for the message.  Before we decided to work on the blockchain we analyzed hundreds of coins and poured over hundreds of conversations to deeply understand what the veteran crypto community as well as newbies would be interested in.  We then saw a surge of ETH based coins which overall has no real blockchain technology and was filled of a lot of empty promises.  We felt that if we were to launch a project we wanted it to be one where there would be ultra private and secure technology that would be used by the community.   Our coin was influenced by features made by Blackcoin, Peer coin, Shadow and Bitcoin (which is the core foundation). Once we decided on the blockchain we wanted to make sure that it would be reviewed by an active and privacy focused developer and asked Sunerok who is the lead developer of Verge to check out the code and make sure that it was coded up to the high standards we wanted.   We also contacted the developer of Shadow to get their blessing if we were to use some of the open sourced code from their project, which was closed and converted to Particl.  Nevertheless, we will continue to develop the blockchain technology with the funds for example in adding a Tor based mobile wallet that runs on android or ios (we don't have one yet) or integrate smart contract technology with RSK.  Lots to do!