In general, this project does not have many different characteristics to those of etherium, to be specific it has less development and use than its fork. It is considered a high risk cryptocurrency in investment.
Among the new features, more compatibility with Etherium is expected, it is planned for January 2020, in addition to this according to the developers this will bring with it an improvement in the processing of blocks, including multiple constatinople codes
This cryptocurrency despite your dark start is noteworthy that it complies with the principles of cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain, its supply has never been modified due to a problem or hack, that is, it is immutable, however each time ETC is used less according to its By the way, smart contracts are not processed in your network and are only used to mobilize funds from one site to another due to their low transaction costs or withdrawals from exchanges.