No. Can you point out at least ONE altcoin which didn't lost it's value within a few days being listed on Cryptsy? This is a general problem with altcoins. Unfortunately, no matter how good they are (and as I told I really think LEAF is very very good, and devs made everything they could, didn't just let it hang around), this is what happens with them. Whales don't mine them because they like the coin, they mine because with the easy difficulty level they make 100.000.000 coins/day, which they can sell at a few satoshis, and they make still a lot more money than mining a coin which already has a big difficulty level.
They don't care about the potential, and don't look at it as an investment. For them it's only a quicker, more profitable way for making BTC. They have very large amounts, and they will not risk to wait while their value decrease a lot. If you have 5-10 million of LEAFs, then you probably say: "what the hell, I am going to take my chance, put a sell order at 40 satoshi, and if it hits there it hits, if not then that's it". If you would have on the other hand hundreds of millions, then there is a completely different issue, and you will not play that game. You will start selling, if you have a little brain in smaller chunks, so you don't devalue too much your own coins, but with every sell you just add the new set of coins you want to sell, and so on.
Well of course this is true. Theres nearly a hundred altcoins based on the same code, all release in a fairly small window of time. They all work in a similar fashion, post almost the same announcement page, work to put themselves on the same websites for promotion and sales. Is is any wonder that speculators look to treat it the same as they've treated the ones that came before?
The only.. and I do mean only thing that can set Leaf or any scrypt altcoin apart from the others is the community it builds. Building projects, building p.r. building ways to use the coin even from the very start. Doge happened on very successful p.r. and set themselves apart, mainly through achieving 1 community set goal. Why? Was it the best idea ever, the Iphone of its age? No, it was a use, a goal that inspired people, a goal that had worldwide public appeal that they could contribute to.
Certainly that doesn't mean anyone should attempt to directly copy their method of success (so far). That would fail badly. Just like no one can copy BTC, since they were the first out of the gate. It does mean that people should learn from their examples and stop pretending that all one needs to do is copy some code, make a few graphics, and all will be well.
Until you have uses for the coin, other then piggy backing on the ones that have gone before. A coin will be used as a tool to stock up on the established coins.
Right now, its looking good around here. Lots of people contributing. Lots of people coming up with graphics and cheerily working on little projects. It looks like something good might actually come of it.
At least I'm betting my GPU time on it.