Tokenormal is wrong on this occasion, this is not a pump and dump by whale(s), this is a broad based FOMO from across the crypto-space and I think it has legs and shows a change of trend.  DASH has value in its own right as digital cash / payments network.  Bitcoin is considered a Store of Value, but is lousy for payments.  I think DASH fills a valuable need here and that gives it monetary value.  Toke will keep his head buried in the sand because he is old and proud and ultimately unmalleable.  He is married to his ideas and will in due course take them to his grave.