Not sure if you guys are aware, but the team are looking into DEX/DeFi side of things for trading. Maybe using DCore as a platform for this?
Follow the telegram group for latest updates on this.

It also looks like they're still some partnerships and develepments ongoing which is promising:
https://secuxtech.com/media-article/secux-stream-the-first-point-of-sales-system-running-on-dcore-decent/
https://twitter.com/3IPK_/status/1337350938852519936 (using DCore https://twitter.com/DECENTplatform/status/1337693283309404160)

Matej is still active:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8KKZ0cwMtY

I think the team are focusing mostly on expanding the use cases and verticals that DCore can be used for, and not focusing on the Token side as much as they should, this sums it well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDco8lBaDDQ

For me personally, I'm definitely disappointed at the token performance, but I'm actually optimistic overall considering that we're still seeing activity from the team even in the last month.
I'm stockpiling on cheap DCT, got a decent bag myself, will keep it aside and see how the project does.