What are the driving factors for crytpocurrency valuation?
Scarcity? Utility? Use? Demand? Network? or am I off base already?
I would say all. And include the market based FUD into the list as well. What drives the people to invest into coins in the price rise and the green wave when whales invest. Then when they dump the beggars buy it hoping that it will go up again.
In the top ten list of coins all the game depends upon the demand, More the people want! Then price will also touch the peaks, it's all about usage. But the cheap altcoins are totally unpredictable. Their values change in minutes.
The market metrics from coinmarketcap or any are not accurate and there are a lot of illicit trades going on off-the-record. Something like the black money concept. Then again these coins are finally going to be dumped in exchanges and then we might seen the missing volume come into circulation.