This looks very promising. Some improvements I see would be needed for this coin to go to the next level:
1. More developer engagement. We need more developers to gravitate to this project, more commits, more pull requests mean a better product.
2. Marketing team, we need some sort of bounty program or incentive for marketing guys to write articles (medium, reddit, etc.)
3. Someone dedicated to researching and working on getting this coin on the bigger exchanges.
4. Improve the website.
5. Also changing the name from 1337 to elitecoin and the ticker would help as you cannot tweet using the dollar sign to reference the coin.
6. A forum similar to monero's
https://forum.getmonero.org/ where people can post ideas, or request funding for projects, this really gets everyone involved.
Other than that I think the team is doing great, xenonflux is a great developer, and really look forward to see what 2018 holds for this coin.