I'm just a HODLER, but the long term mission is to have a 100% secure, anonymous and private cryptocurrency. Basically a PoS Monero if you will. I would recommend joining the Discord server to stay up to date, and check the bi-weekly updates from @mandica which showcase the continual progress. Coins like XVG market themselves as private when in fact they are nothing close to anonymous nor private, whereas XSPEC seems to be now focused on locking down and analyzing the code to actually accomplish those things. After that, then a new marketing campaign can begin. 

I would read this update  for how current anonymous transactions work and some other info. https://news.spectreproject.io/anonymous-transactions/