There's not much to ZIL, probably because there are other smart contract platforms with better features and a much bigger ecosystem of dApps, tokens, and services around them. The recent pump in ZIL's price may only be temporary, as the project lacks any substance to it. Only a long-lasting bull market could lead ZIL all the way to $1 per coin. I'd focus more on the big players as that's where the money is. Cardano, BNB, Ethereum, Solana, and even Polygon are much better options than ZIL itself.
Despite this, it never hurts investing a little into ZIL just to make money in the short term. Remember, not all that glitters is Gold. As long as you invest based on research (not someone else's opinion), you'll be on a road towards non-stop success.
The difference is that, for "some" reason and I do not really know what that it is, it went up and got some interest. Which made people question, why exactly is that? Like what happened that made ZIL go up this much during the last period? Was it a fluke with some whale getting in and so forth? Or was it a brand new thing that they did, some great news, that made it go up? What is it that caused the spike?
If it is not a big deal then I would understand, but at the same time there is really nothing that could be "not questioned" in the crypto world so people are just wondering. I do not have the answer, but I do wonder about what happened there and caused it like go 200% up for a while.