So to make this case to another . .
Why would YOU choose Zen over ZEC or Hush or KMD?
You don't pretend any of the four do the same things and then realize you go with all four.
ZEC will be commercialized heavily to make Fortune 500s etc better acquainted and more comfortable with crypto transactions and services. Uses founder rewards per block paid to the launch team.
HUSH is implementing secured messaging and in the future, smart contracts with their own token. Plus they are embedding SuperNET InstaDEX from the KMD team. Small premine to start with funds.
KMD is the swap in coin from BTCD (man those were good days!) the core SuperNET coin. KMDPlatform and the InstaDEX all live here and this project is EXCELLENT! KMD itself will be the pairing currency in the InstaDEX and they started with a 100M coin premine, that 20M sold in ICO, 70M are in flux for the BTCD swap through end of year and the last 10M are reserved for dev funding. The whole project here has been worth its time tenfold IMHO.
ZEN is taking the Masternode/securenode approach also with a founders reward from each block that will sustain the devs for years to come, no premine. This project has some of the BIGGEST potential to date. Secure messaging is one thing, but taking that to the next level and using this platform for anonymous publication... lofty, ATTAINABLE goals of creating the next web on the internet where data mirroring and historic versioning (think github in a coinbase) are available WITHOUT needing to be hosted on ISP backbones for high availability.
I am missing a ton of details that can be looked up if you really need to know more. ZEN and KMD are two of the most undervalued projects out there. James jl777 (BTCD and KMD) started with taking over the BTCD project YEARS ago and has surrounded himself with very capable resources and the community. Ton of credibility there, and he is achieving something everyone here has demanded and no one has succeeded in doing to date... that is InstaDEX and he proved a KMD to HUSH transaction a while ago. I see some of the same promise in ZEN, where they are working hard on the first real feature update, securenodes... this project took the most honest and business savvy approach IMO, and instead of promising the world and rushing to dev for the sake of coin value, they have built what is looking to be one of THE most solid core teams in crypto. Given more time, I expect big things from both.
And yes I hold all 4(5 with BTCD).