It has an ideal block time, it was launched fairly, its dominant in its hashing algo, it uses a non-competing ASIC to Bitcoin, It has Dogecoin merged mined with it, The creator is an OG, It has a great name and brand, its widely available, its #2 most used PoW after Bitcoin and nothing else comes close! It has fungibilty and privacy feature with MWEB... which is tech from an anonymous author... similar how Bitcoin was created...