XEL, on the other hand, works pretty well, has a unique technology not used by anyone else (frankly, I guess so because it is too complex to be understood by today's average crypto "CTO", "CFO" or "co-founder") and earns nothing but a few peanuts - probably about the amount others spend on recruiting their twitter shills alone, which, by the way, seem to have become common courtesy for today's projects.
When you say it works you mean in the testnet right?
AFAIK, the mainnet release has not changed since last year where there is a blockchain for trading but no computations.
Perhaps when the working product reaches the mainnet we will see coverage in articles and interest from the community.
Right now most of the people in crypto are not even aware of this project