why don't they just join DRK instead... not need another coin

never heard of shadowcoin before
The proposal merges the two coins and they'll keep whatever stake they had, but in Darkcoin instead. It's the first "coin-merge" to ever happen in crypto.
Hopefully this is not intended at a 1 to 1 ratio?
No, there's a conversation rate between ShadowCash/DRK to keep the same value.
So if I'm understanding this correctly, Darkcoin would mint $434,231 (current ShadowCash marketcap) worth of new Darkcoins to swap existing SDC for DRK? With that, the SDC developers would join the darkcoin team or would they require additional payment?