Ryo is one of very few cryptonote currencies that does actual, rapid development. Its team is led by fireice_uk and psychocrypt, who are the developers of xmr-stak mining software and the cryptonight-heavy algo which has been used by several Cryptonote projects and pioneered first in industry floating point mining algo Cryptonight-GPU. Another lead developer - mosu_forge introduced first GUI Wallet with SOLO mining features among any Cryptonote projects.