My bad, didn't notice the new answers!

Of course VDN is still active, there are always hardcoded nodes running no matter what (minerja what issues are you encountering by the way?)
As the last Windows build had an issue with newer versions of MiniUPnP non-hardcoded nodes are not communicating between themselves, but rather all communicate to the hardcoded nodes, and those hardcoded nodes share everthing with anyone else; so don't worry if you get only 2 active connections, you're just not getting access to the 2.2 Windows nodes (as the issue is only build-related). I hope I'll get that library straight too, but I really didn't want to keep VDN running on obsolete and unsecure libraries, it's better to work on new and secure ones. It did well for all the other libraries, MiniUPnP is the last issue.

As for the exchanges, as you probably all already know, we got our own "Voda" made as a platform for anyone who'd like to trade, but yes, there's no buying volume, which is why I understand if you're expecting other exchanges. If we keep pushing together we can all mean something and get some external exchange to list us, so if you would like that we can organize more on that side! I'm there to support any community-based initiative that can help the project, as I always did until now.