Is there still hope for ICX?

yes me too
they have a few really active github repositories github.com/icon-project
there's been a ton of news since ico too medium.com/@helloiconworld
some partnerships/MOUs since ico: kybernetwork, bodhi, kyobo life insurance, certik, LINE, ChainToB, Portal Network, CertiK, Tribe Accelerator, Carboneum, Deloitte, aSSIST business school, E4net, SK Planet, SK Holdings C&C, W foundation, AD4th, Nonghyup Bank, Cyberdigm, Raonsecure, and Smilegate Stove.

they were also selected as as an operator of Seoul’s standard blockchain platform for ‘Seoul Blockchain Demonstration Project’ which is commissioned by the Seoul Metropolitan Government.

they're certainly the most hyperconnected scamming gooks

Pretty much this. The amount of news and postive shit going for ICX is undeniable. ICX will moon eventually, but you may have to hold literally forever.

Currently they're completly centralized. The end goal is a delegated proof of stake, right?
Basically EOS but years behind and EOS is not that great to begin with.

right, currently centralized and "dpos based on icons incentive scoring system", is the end goal.
I'm not aware of EOS having these kinds of partnerships, but ICON does talk the problems with dpos in their yellow paper AMA and how they're solving them docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18Ko_PdpMsusvhwxZi_W7AQxF3K3-r7rsLh1KxRZWneY/edit#gid=866687157

> The problem of DPoS systems including EOS lies in the network authority centralization; They only evaluate the contribution to network solely based on the values of stakes which allows collusion between nodes and biased decision making.

> To solve those problems, ICON Network uses IISS (ICON Incentives Scoring System) to quantify the consumption and contributions based on ‘DPoC (Delegated Proof of Contribution)’ consensus algorithm to prove an actual user's contributions to the network, not only by the values of the stakes.

> Also, ICON designed 2 types of nodes in C-Rep and P-Rep to balance the interests of different parties. ICON plans to adopt more structural methods to solve the existing DPoS system's problems to stabilize token structure and governance system."

i am just an ICON livin