The whole altcoin market seems to be going through a shake-up.
Investment spilling into all kinds of nooks and crannies. Dogue market cap seems to have blown Dash away. It was behind and now suddenly it's double.
VPN coin's got £3M dollar volume. Factom's got $2M. Etherium a whopping $12M.
What's going on ? People run out of patience with Bitcoin's screwing around with blocksize ?
There is a more simple answer, namely Chinese pumping literally everything that is in their reach.
Check ->
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1341729.msg13684861#msg13684861And compare on CMC with the gains.
Those piecharts will also show that DASH (and XMR as well) barely have any Chinese volume, so are kind of left out of the "pump".