Roadmap for this year is not so impressive... Just may be Qtum Fhantom will be interesting.. but this is not something new. For example Tomochain is doing the same thing.
Phantom is interesting and much needed feature, They're also going to implement delegation system, Which probably going to appeal to a lot of people, Everyone will be able to earn interest risk free without having to run a node themselves.
But this is not new and something unique. A lot of projects have DPoS already. I meants something unique and usefull with real usecase of tokens.
Dpos is centralized, seems they plan let the smart contract be the delegator.. not a node.
also for dpos.. you can not get your reward automatically.. some times your reward based on your trust of the delegator..
i think that's the big difference.
also i think the Confidential Asset is a good feature.. just image you can release an anonymous USDT on Qtum.