I think the Bitshares price bump has something to do with them nearly having their decentralized exchange ready to roll out. Good project check it out if you have the time.
Can you hit me up with a few links? I do not have so much time on my hands to be looking around for them.
Are they going to open source it? If it's good then it can be implemented in a lot of places.
There was always a need for a decentralized exchange even for Bitcoin and Darkcoin obviously.
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?board=65.0That's the main BitsharesX forum.
A decentralised exchange is all very well but nobody outside of the existing crypto community gives a flying fuck.
MasterNet on the other hand - a global decentralised unDDOSable VPN and hosting platform with integrated automatic anonymity... there's real money in that.

I'm wondering if this is really true... Pardon me for playing Devil's Advocate...
I'm wondering if DRK does more than people can understand. Single-feature shitcoins are easy to grasp, even if utility is marginal or moot. LTC is still massive, and with absolutely no reason remaining from it's original feature set.
I don't think people can understand waht DRK an MN Services can do for them. They look at it with a deer-in-the-headlights stare having no idea at all why it's needed. Or worse, understanding just barely enough about DRK, but not understanding the evil forces at work in the world, and referring to DRK as a solution in search of a problem.
I think people are unaware as well. They see the price and think it is "high" (in relation to other ALTs) and dismiss it due to "missing the bus". However, if they actually grasped the entire picture and what DRK is and will be, I think they would see it is cheap right now.
Disclaimer: I say this from the point of view of someone who reads other threads, researches a lot of ALTs, and invests in coins worthy of my money (just DRK right now). I can sleep comfortably knowing my BTC is in DRK, hard to say for many other coins.
I'm speaking from a utility viewpoint, not a trader viewpoint.
People don't understand what DRK is. People don't understand what MNs can do for them and why it's worth paying a tiny amount of money for.
People don't believe what the government and ISPs are doing to spy on them and control them. They write it off as tinfoil hat, when the stuff we called people crazy for back in the 60s and 70s is not only come to pass, but small time compared to what is actually being done right this moment.
Even if they did understand, they're barely capable of turning their computers on, much less taking charge of their own lives... You can give a man a tool chest, but that doesn't make him able to use them or willing to learn.
The Huxlian begets the Orwellian. They WANT to be slaves.