I started working on this before I even knew about SCOT or Steem-Engine, but it's true a lot of features are similar (the focus on content discovery). SCOT is centralized though, while this is powered by blockchain, like STEEM.

But no it was not possible. This article doesn't include every detail about the differences with STEEM, but you can already see that DTC is liquid and tradable at any time (no need to 'power it up'), and the VP doesn't cap. The onboarding mechanism that we are going to release after the 31st of July is also different and should help getting people into crypto more easily than having a STEEM account.

Edit: Also the 'vote on a tag' is impossible on STEEM / SCOT because it's impossible to write a text alongside a vote on the chain (would be an easy change tbh)