I don't think they're still at the "survival" stage anymore, but that'd just be a guess after recent price changes and since they sell the same amount of coins monthly. About SMT's, @steem-engine lauched recently so people can get their coins going already and when SMT's come around to give those coins blockchain level curation, etc, we'll be waiting with a healthy distribution through markets and the way dapps are already distributing their tokens.