I don't see what Counterparty is doing better than other currencies such as Nxt yet the price has exploded recently. Is there any future in this currency?
You talked about NXT. NXT Bootstrap was between ~70 unique addresses, raised approx 23BTC prior to working application, prior to any open source implementation and is now sitting with a market cap of 95,983 BTC
By contrast CounterParty (XCP) raised around 100x amount nxt had raised, from a much broader user base ~2,600 unique addresses- providing open source, working implementation of world-first Decentralised exchange right from the start. Fair. Transparent. The current market cap is less than 1/3 of NXT. The protocol has real utility
I personally find it absolutely incredulous to see the wealth disparity between the largest holders of NXT and the 'joe public. However I cannot criticise at all NXT vision, the currency itself. the developers, and think their community is excellent.
Anyway, the question Is there any future in CounterParty however can be answered simply with a resounding yes.