Cryptonote is completely new code and would be next to impossible to implement into QBK. Either Dark or XCurrency would be the ideal candidates. I think they are both committed to open source on a time delayed basis. I disagree that we can do everything all at once. I think ICO investment strategy should come first. That is where the money will be made with this coin. Later, when it is successful and we want to try to develop some new features then that's fine. For now we have all we need and we can get what we don't have from open source developments in other coins.
Yeah, ring signatures would be extremely unlikely as a candidate to add, I agree. Drk, perhaps, just not sure how the node thing would work since this is a staked coin, not mined.
I do disagree with the idea they have all they need now. It doesn't have to be anonymity they add, but they do need to add some new coin features with the ICO money. The plan shouldn't be to only add features based on profits from whatever assets they obtain.
They need a multipool and they could use some wallet enhancements, for starters. A stabilization fund is needed (and I believe it was stated they plan to do this). They have to do more than buy up assets if they want to increase volume + add some buy support.