Splitting of from Ethereum back in 2016, ETC is still being developed by a small team of people that work full-time on the project. It is currently being ranked as one of the top 20 coin according to CMC. ETC has been the talk of the town as of lately, mostly due to its impending Coinbase listing. Crypto community has just recently found out about this new development and as a result, every time Coinbase announces a maintenance event, buy orders start piling on for the coin. Thanks to these news ETC outperformed the entire market and weathered the crashing of Bitcoin/alt markets relatively okay.