any news coming soon?
Not since they got caught lying about this scam - looks like they've abandoned this project now.
Yes, the project is clearly abandoned, since as you can see, in 2019:
The core team has released two core wallet versions 0.7.4 and 0.7.5.
The system implementation team has released emerAPI:
http://emerapi.info/Created and implemented Randpay - subsystem for handle trillions of transaction per year:
https://medium.com/@emer.tech/randpay-6a028f16c82aENUMER handles ~2000 requests a day
emerDNS OpenNIC gateway handles ~10,000 requests per day
EdTech implemented education notarization on the Emer:
https://medium.com/@emer.tech/blockchain-in-edtech-52cbb6c9c68cBut, if people are blurry-eyed, of course, Emercoin is abandoned to them.