?¿ privacy? sorry, but this is not the industry where aelf is mainly focused... this is not like Monero, VErge, Cloak...
As other user previously said, market is saturated.. and most of the coins dont have a real case of use appart from speculative purpose.
On the other side, there are few coins in the market that could really be a surprise.. Aelf among them, as it is leading the technology front with higher blockchain efficiency, .. in fact it has been named by some as the Linux of Blockchains.
ps: No ICO, just private investors aware of the potential of the project.