Could you please elaborate on the team running this project? How many people are involved so far, and what is their level of expertise?

We are not a big team, but very committed. Level of expertise can be checked at our GitHub repository (https://github.com/afterether) . We have sufficient knowledge to modify Ethereum sources to do whatever we want, here is an example of it: https://github.com/afterether/ethbot/blob/master/vendor/github.com/ethereum/ethbot-patch4geth-prod.diff