The future of the Ethereum Classic seems to work well with development teams and others in the community who are working hard to bring new features to the platform. The most important of these is the complete publication of the mentioned Emerald project. Emerald aims at an ETC wallet that allows transactions to be identified in an unreliable manner at the most basic level that other competitive wallets can not.
The Emerald Wallet project is at least still in beta. There is a full functional version of Wallet available for download from Github, but the developer has added a somewhat ominous disclaimer. "Please do not keep or transact more than you are willing to lose, and please be careful. Please use a hardware wallet such as Ledger Nano S together with Emerald Wallet. If something were to happen, we are sorry, but we are not responsible for any lost ETC.”