Thank you for the concern, but ZED is not dead. The developer did not sell anything, nor run away.
The truth is, there is a re-branding in motion and some of the new assets took some time to receive. Look for the ANN in the coming week.
-Kilo88
For a coin that's "not dead" there's been wonderfully little useful information of late. I can't find any live pools, which means solo mining... but it looks like people are playing games with the coin, given the large fluctuations in difficulty and the resulting longer-than-expected followed by shorter-than-expected block times. Best of luck to you, but this is definitely on my "do not mine" list!