NPXS is no longer on Bittrex.

Binance.com doesn't provide services to USA any longer. and binance.us doens't have a NPXS trading pair. Also other asian based exchanges are banned from providing services as well.

Some of the exchangers listed on coinmarketcap are outdated listings that need to be updated. I did some looking around. It seems probit.com is the best bet.

I did some thinking about this token reduction as well. This will actually get a lot of investors rekt. because their holdings will be slashed by 1000:1 ratio.  So example, if you own 10,000 tokens, you will only have 10 tokens after the reduction. That's a huge loss. And according to the medium article, the token price will be as it is now. That's just absurd.

https://medium.com/pundix/request-for-comment-npxs-token-reduction-da4c8e618bee

So on second thought, I'll just sit back and watch this shit show unfold.

no, only the roadmap is the same and uses defi, I doubt if there is no further development of the project and just imitating aave then the chance will not be too high to pursue aave or at least comparable to aave.
If you look at the dominance and interest, Aave is still superior.