DASH is a perfect example of how the market is based on speculation. Recently DASH had a few big announcements regarding the major changes to the protocol- Dash EVOLUTION.
Announcements:
June 27: Official Roadmap https://www.dash.org/2017/06/27/roadmap.html
June 26: Evan's announcement: https://www.dash.org/2017/06/26/Evan-Duffield-Hong-Kong.html
I covered some aspects of this on this post :
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@boxmining/dash-evolution-will-support-400-mb-blocksizes
It seems like its only how that the market is responding to this, with a 20% increase in DASH price.
Korean Boost
The biggest trade volume is on Bithumb today, with a 28% trade volume. Koreans seem to be extremely interested in DASH and other cryptocurrencies.
Key Announcements
There are some key announcements with regards to the changes in block sizes and even how to master node network functions. The whole concept of evolution is amazing with some key paradigm shifts. For example, Evan realized to improve DASH network efficiency, the master nodes must have signification hardware improvements. This had lead to some (gradual) change proposals:
- Increase Master node storage capacity
- gradually require master nodes to use better hardware (more RAM, better processor)
- slowly phase to SSD based storage.
These changes will allow DASH to be a premiere network with elite machines.