Is this project still alive?

I like the size and scope at the moment, and I'd be happy to help in some way. I am a frontend web developer, and I'm pretty adept at Javascript, PHP, C#/.net - I know there isn't a roadmap or whitepaper, this particular forum seems to be the biggest knowledge base at the moment. That doesn't bother me, and I'm sort of looking at this as a learning experience. I like the new block explorer and I'm happy to see that a simple API has been provided.

I have a few questions:

I was curious about the staking algorithm. Does the coin or wallet age affect the reward, or is the reward based purely on the % of total supply controlled by the wallet?

Are there any plans to be re-listed on bittrex?

What is this coin based on (was it forked from another concurrency)?

Thanks Guys,