As mentioned above this post, Stakenet is working in private repositories to prevent other projects from stealing their work, which has been under development for the past 2 years now.
10x from here is actually not that unlikely, in fact I believe this project will 50x once it truly launches their DEX with Ethereum integrated, as it will pretty much make Uniswap obsolete. Instant BTC + ETH trading with close to zero fees is hard to beat.

It goes without saying that crypto is a wild west and a lot of projects both big and small have no qualms with shamelessly ripping an idea off and calling it their own.
I hope X9 fights back after they published a proposal for EPOS (exertive proof of stake) to have
Microsoft file patents for it shortly after.