What we need to do is to add anonymity and smart contracts to Datacoin. That is how relatively small coins like Neo and Sumokoin gained prominence.
I don't have such expirience. Can smart contracts be realized over dtc raw data storage? May be similar with realization of file systems over raw hdd storage.
If it is possible then it would be done without any fork.
Generally many ideas can be realized over raw dtc storage without any fork.
It is possible to create any different additional blokchains stored into dtc raw storage ) And it is very cool idea, I think.
Apertus has the start of tokenization of an asset.
You can see that even my etching of the eclipse is etched and "owned" by the signature "DB7yW39wkCHNerG3rAf4ZZk1b2Hba6SmAd".
This is the start of asset transfer, as that signature, is necessarily tied to my wallet -- with the proper wrappers, that could then be "traded", and with more wrappers, that could be part of a smart contract.
We can build on top of the chain with apps -- Apertus is barely scratching the surface
See how we even have the ability to tie the ownership to an image (which is tied to the signature I control)
http://bitfossil.org/615c5a19e660c179fd87ecdb2feca8a95a290a289147076400242837706bab6c/index.htm