Is DERO ASIC resistant?
It will be with the Atlantis release in a few weeks.
I doubt it. The devs avoid to confirm that. If you ask the devs, they will say something like "we are working on the most robust, secure, energy efficient and decentralized blockchain". Note, that ASICs are the most energy efficient devices ever.
We have confirmed that we are using a new algorithm that isn't ASIC friendly. This is what we have said we would do, and it will be released with Atlantis.
Yes, what is generally referred to as ASIC technology is advancing, and perhaps it's inevitable that mining/network security heads in this direction for a number of reasons. For now though, we are moving to a brand new algo and it takes quite a while to develop an ASIC for any algo.