Aeon is one of the few, if any, CryptoNote coins without RingCT and Bulletproofs. If a venerability Or exploit were Found in this code, almost all CN coins would be affected except Aeon.

So many coins forked from monero and or just created from copy pasting monero code to say they aren’t a direct fork, can become obsolete from a major exploit in this code. It’s nice being in the sidelines due to this while still maintaining a private blockchain.