Consider Vertcoin (VTC). Fairly launched, adjusting N-factor scrypt coin. It will be very popular with miners as LTC ASICs roll out and has been growing in spite of the recent down trend. It's currently only on CoinedUp which is too unreliable for many, though it has good volume there with a strong dev and mining community.

[ANN]: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=404364.0
Paper (1 pg): http://vertcoin.org/Vertcoin-DavidMuller.pdf]http://vertcoin.org]http://vertcoin.org/Vertcoin-DavidMuller.pdf
Site: http://vertcoin.org

Come to #vertcoin on freenode if you wish to discuss anything.