The team has blockchain knowledge and a extensive scientific background. With their prototype they have shown that they reached their promise of 200.000 TPS. So the technical side of the project provides lots of future promise, but they also have to show that they can master the economical side of the project with real world partnerships and enterprises looking to build dApps on the HashNET. The TPS number is looking good, but there are more and more projects with similar claims. Blockchain protocol projects need to ensure adoption and one way is to secure partnerships (which Tolar doesn’t seem to have much). Therefore, i'm neutral about the long term viability of the project.