DEMOS comes from ancient Greek, meaning democracy, and also means collective. DEMOS is mainly to provide help for more and more public chains. In the process of helping, they gather public chains.
PIRATE (ARRR) is the best of Zcash (ZEC) combined with the best of Monero (XMR) and secured by Komodo's (KMD) Delayed-Proof-of-Work (dPoW) It’s a forced Shielded-transactions (z-transactions) only blockchain, meant for completely anonymous transactions. PIRATE is mined into a transparent address, but can only go into a shielded address from there. PIRATE is an independent blockchain built using the Komodo Platform assetchains. PIRATE is feature complete for its goal: complete anonymity.