Before I noticed that the price of VTC and VIA was kinda synced all the time. If VIA fell, then also VTC and vice versa. Then something happened a few weeks ago and VTC went up, leaving VIA in the dust. VTC is dominating, but now I have a hunch that VIA is soon going to lift off. What do you other guys think? VIA has had some very nice features implemented and yet is more to come.
I believe VTC rise is about Segwit and Lightning implementation, facilitating atomic swap testing with LTC.
VTC has early-mover advantage in something that may happen in many alts. VIA is not in that testing and unlikely to catch-up to VTC now.
viacoin has already implemented and activated both segwit and lightning network a while ago,
and did successful atomic swaps with ltc and dcr
...on a network thats orders of magnitude bigger, stronger and more secure
...not to mention, atomic swaps would not be possible without viacoin's original opcode CheckLockTimeVerify which was implemented 3 years ago.