I just did an online research and I found Verge may be better,
XVG Devs is working hard now.

I checked the traffic and its travis-hub (https://travis-ci.org/vergecurrency/VERGE/builds/)
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Just check the traffic and their hard work. They work really hard after the leak and twitter issues.

I really really really appreciate them.
By the way, I choose other crypto before like Spectre and Monero (ad still with them),
but I believe that Verge will also jump hard (not-pumped) if the devs really found the bug (IP Leak).

I would say:
Not even close to dead.
Verge ll jump very high.