The team is full of engineers from leading Chinese firms (Alibaba, Tencent, JD etc). They're active as hell on their Github https://github.com/vitelabs and almost a year ahead on their roadmap (Testnet is alreadyout when it was stated to be released in late 2019!). Team consist mostly of engineers and they have offices in San Francisco and Beijing.

Their supernode elections will be out soon and I think it'll be a good time to buy/research into Vite. A supernode however costs about 500,000 Vite so not really affordable for most. However if one is able to become one, they can earn up to 3000+ vite a day. They will be handing out rewards as an incentive for people who vote on supernode elections (need Vite tokens to vote) and people who will run node servers (do not require Vite tokens to operate) so it's really a good time to start looking at it. Maybe earn some extra tokens just by running a node or two.

Their consensus protocol will be DPoS based and operates similarly to Lisk/EOS.

Look into Vite. I know I have.