Those who've watched Syscoin through the years know the devs are diligent - Jag in particular.  The quality of dev and tech is one of the main things keeping me interested in Syscoin.  Some people think tech itself isn't as important as marketing to get adoption, but that rings extremely shortsighted to me, especially in a tech industry.  Marketing is important, and will ramp-up, but Syscoin operates these days with an approach different than most projects; Release the product, then do marketing.  That's particularly been the case w/ Syscoin 4 and the now upcoming interop tech.

Some of the recent challenge has been the project & scope have gone through transformation since the 2014 beginning as the devs rolled accumulated knowledge and perspective into the design.  I'm hoping the protocol settles-down and hard-forks are replaced with soft-forks so Syscoin can demonstrate its stability by accumulating block count & uptime.  New ZDAG throughput layer, the token platform, trustless interoperability, enterprise services (like marketplace and document signing) which use offchain aggregation with onchain record-of-state and Ethereum smart-contracts, all based on a streamlined blockchain - that is the way forward for Syscoin's long term relevance.  It's true the initial flagship use case (onchain marketplace, and other onchain native smart contracts like aliases, etc) seemed more flashy on the surface, but it was not scalable and ultimately a dead end in the long run.  What Syscoin has become is scalable and broader and more powerful in utility.  It's ironic to see other projects implementing some of the same services  (in the same ways) Syscoin was first to provide long ago before the Syscoin devs decided based on first-hand experience they were best handled other ways.