All crypto are going up today, waves back at 2.75$. It would be a good surprise to see it break trough the 3$ limit next week.
In Q4 2017 or Q1 2018 Waves will be on par with ETH with the smart contracts enabled.
And the UX / UI is already much better than ETH has ever been, imagine what happens as soon as the first Etherdesign "DEX UI" is released.
Compare "Mist" to the "Waves Lite Client". The first one needs a manual to add tokens, the second is easy to understand and use. And don't get me wrong, I have big stack of ETH too.
3$ is just a bump in the road, not even close to our destination.
There are a lot of projects that may raise quicker than Waves but only for Waves I can make a safe prediction it will go up, there's real tech behind it, a great community and a lot of potential.
Waves price is already slowly growing, can't imagine how high it'll go when smart contracts will be enabled :O
118k sat atm, I expect it might take quick +5-20% as many other alts.