I think XRP is down to about 60% founder control, they've been giving it away to strategic partners.
Ethereum Classic doesn't have anything to do with Cryptonote. It's a straight fork of Ethereum.
I don't think Golem or Augur are actually in production yet, they're just tokens on Ethereum that will play a role in the actual systems once those are live.
If you want to look at a token that's about as close to a complete scam as tokenly possible, look no further than Gnosis. The GNO token doesn't actually directly translate to an asset that can be used on their prediction market come launch. Even more, investors only control 4.5% of the GNO tokens in existence, granted this was all done AFTER Gnosys had more than enough existing funding. Cash grab, plain and simple.
Other way around. Ethereum is a fork of ETC ;-)
Currently a merchant is not able to declare his receiving Dash address as "Instant transactions only". Without this feature merchant is forced to trust that his customers would always use instant transactions.
https://www.dash.org/forum/threads/we-need-merchants-using-d...