Decred is a great project because it has a smart, active development team that works hard on Crypto.
It also has its own in-house project and implemented management capabilities that are great features that allow users to choose and make more DCR development decisions.
They also had good interviews with other big coin developers like Charlie Lee who chilled heavily last year
Coincidentally, trading of decred started yesterday 14th of September, 2018 on kucoin exchange