From a certain perspective the price is indeed speculative right now like with most altcoins. The project is single-team and you cannot buy much directly with DCR, although bridges like coinpayments.net solve this problem.

But to my view it has the lowest chances to collapse compared to many altcoins I have looked into. All aspects of the project, perhaps with the exception of hype (luckily), are very solid.

My projection is that the price will become less speculative and more real as time goes.