Usually small coins that their only advantage is "high income with PoS mining" are only pump and dump...
Lightning Network didn't prove itself as a game changer until now... too much hype in my opinion.
Where are you seeing "too much hype"? The Lightning Network is constantly being worked on, and the Stakenet team being in the lead on dApp developments on top of this tech is pretty damn cool. Nobody uses the Lightning Network because it's for NERDS, Stakenet makes the Lightning Network easily accessible for anyone.
If you like DEFI, Stakenet is probably of your interest.
· issuance of stablecoins using masternodes collateral
· lightning dex
· tokenization
· prediction markets using XSN Masternodes