This was a great read, interesting times ahead for Crypto world. We are still at early stages. I did read some experts mentioning that out of 1300 coins currently trading close to 95% are bound to fail at some point.
In terms of M&A ... I have seen instances where developers working on a crypto project decide to join hands with another one and move onto that platform
One example would be http://bitcoindark.com/ where the developers of BTCD decide to join hands with Komodo ( KMD) and moved to KMD platform and are working on that now
80% of BTCD supply got swapped for KMD coins at the rate of 1 BTCD = 50 KMD
So Merger of sorts is happening right now in Crypto world even with coins/tokens
Thanks for pointing out the KMD example. Do you have any conjectures what both parties have to gain?