Wont be merge mined .
Bitcoin.com , antpool, and viabtc will donate a % of their hashrate to this alt. Presumably since Bitmain controls so much hashrate directly and indirectly via selling 70% of ASICs they are confident this alt wont be attacked even if it has less than 10% of network hashrate %
Basically this coin places a lot of faith in Bitmain who looks like where the dev costs are being funded through as well
Do you really think those pools will waste theirs hashrate with this shitcoin? People dont like to waste money.