What are the driving factors for crytpocurrency valuation?
Scarcity? Utility? Use? Demand? Network? or am I off base already?
Crypto's price-boosting factors are capitalization of the market, good and bad news about Crypto. These are the main factors that cause the price of the altcoins to change.
The Crypto market is not different from the stock market, so you can find out in books about the stock market. It will give you quite a lot of investment experience.