It is a successor of the Crowdcoin blockchain. They made a swap and moved to another algorithm so the old blockchain was abandoned. A decision was made to continue the support of it because the network proved herself to be reliable andShow more [+] trustworthy one.
But the main reason was to keep alive the original idea: to create a place were people, interested in crypto, meet people who want to share and develop their knowledge - to put it in layman`s terms - an academy and a platform for crowd-funding projects. And even to broaden it - to create a social network for the crypto realm.