This project has signed 3 full on contracts and 3 MOUs recently.
Their most recent event in Hong Kong brought out some big players in Asia like Tony Tong and Jay Liang who have shown interest in the project.
The mining process is one that is fair only CPU no GPU or ASICs so not the same as other blockchains.
The fact it's a dag and does not have throughput issues means easy sidechain is its own separate blockchain technically and keeps over 5000tps which is more then double Visas TPS sufficient for any business. It is not like Ethereum some similarities of course as they have sidechains, but it's not the same as ethereum isn't a Dag tree based blockchain. BBC is more like Hashgraph and Iota for example.
There is so much to the project but it's ready and deployable most projects aren't yet. They didn't go do an ICO or IEO and are funded and the tech team are brilliant. To note they created some of the first asic chips for Bitcoin in 2013, the first blockchain Bluetooth v4 IOT sensors and started the project in 2016.
I have done research into this and seen real contracts signed, the project has a large staff over 100 people and huge promise in the blockchain and IoT world as they are combining the two to give more usecases and transparency in an array of areas such as insurance, water quality assurance, emissions testing, finance and agriculture to name a few.
This isn't a snowflake money grabbing project and the tech and science is deep. Take a look into the project and you will see that they plan to do something unlike the shitcoin projects of the past did and they already started building for traditional businesses. China wants and loves blockchain and their solutions make sense for the government as well, this is one to at very least follow and read into.
Lastly mining this project is cheap CPU I got 10 setup and get coins daily and it's very easy to do with the easy mining guide.
Anyways thought I'd give my 2sats.