Coin is not dead. Monitoring the network there's been a-lot of interest, lots of ebbs and flows over the last few years. There has been some fairly high level serious interest in this project and I think this is corporate interest. 

Coin is forked from bitcoin v16 so considering bitcoin is now over $100,000, the code base looks stable.

There's been a few updates to BTC from v16 obviously the most important of which I've been trying to codify https://github.com/jdawg24/umami-dragonfruit. Though I'm not a project team member and i'm unlikely unable to grok the algo on my own, in any case I'd be worried about putting out another release off my own back with project team support and i don't currently have access to required server estate to launch a pool.

Since it is a community project it's hard to break into the mainstream exchanges which demand payments of around $1,000,000 for a coin listing, this is similar to BSV community getting ripped off over at major exchanges in a recent lawsuit.  https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2025/661.html

I am very hopeful for this project since it enables access to a market with relatively little hardware overhead and holds a lot of hope for economically developing countries as such it represents satoshi's true tenets.