After resting since early September, Dash has experienced a substantial run recently. Starting November 12, the price of Dash has risen by $ 310 to reach highs of more than $ 800. At the time of going to press, the currency is trading at 750.

This year has been extraordinary for cryptocurrency, and it is tempting to attribute the rapid rise of Dash to speculative frenzy who seized the entire market. However, there are signs that something more can drive Dash. Is it possible that we see the first steps towards increased adoption?

New Integration

Today, Dash and Uphold have made a joint press release to announce the integration of currency into the Uphold platform. , send and sell digital currencies using the web or mobile phone. According to the joint statement, the new integration will allow 94% of the world's population to use Dash.

The integration is live, and Uphold plans to soon add support for the InstantSend feature of Dash. InstantSend is an optional native feature of the Dash protocol. Users who send Dash using InstantSend have their transactions fully confirmed in seconds, rather than in minutes or hours.

Ryan Taylor, CEO of Dash Core, wrote:

"Uphold Adds to the Dash Ecosystem the Fastest and Simplest Method Yet for Everyday Consumers Dash has already integrated several of the world's largest digital currency exchanges, but trading is generally daunting for non-trading users. </ p> <p> Uphold makes transactions much simpler than an exchange, and it takes support users from most geographical areas. "

Colin Luce, head of global business development at Uphold, said:

were eager to Add Dash mainly because of the increased adoption and use cases in the real world. The organizational structure of Dash, with masternodes and proposals and the Core Group, is a recipe for long-term success, especially at a time when the vast majority of the hundred blockchains and currencies are still predominantly speculative. "

Previous Integrations

Dash has announced a number of integrations and partnerships this year, and each of them brings the currency closer to the world. Some examples include:

Alt36 – This company integrates Dash into a retail point of sale system.The target market of Alt36 is the 39, legal cannabis industry, which is completely cut off from the banking system due to federal regulation.At the present time, the legal marijuana industry is a lucrative business and the costs of handling, guarding and transporting large amounts of money are huge.Since Dash's InstantSend allows transactions to fully confirm in seconds, users can check and exit the store immediately without waiting for multiple confirmations.

Exchange Integrations – This year saw Dash added to Bitfinex, Bitthumb, Huobi, Binance, Kraken and others. The integration with Kraken was particularly noteworthy, as Dash's budget system paid Kraken $ 50,000 to conduct a security study on the currency and its InstantSend feature before integrating it. Dash has passed security check and was added to the exchange in April.

BlockCypher – In February, Dash's budget system funded an integration with BlockCypher for the development of a hot-wallet API. The API was launched soon after, allowing providers to easily add Dash payment options. BlockCypher has also participated in several conferences jointly with Dash and has partnered with the Dash Network to provide grants to startups in the industry Blockchain

ASU – This Summer , Dash and Arizona State University announced the development. from a Blockchain research laboratory to the university. The lab was funded by Dash's budget system for $ 50,000. Fortune said the laboratory "will focus on scalability, best practices, network architecture, environmentally friendly mining, latency and the At a later date, the university will be able to start offering courses given by Dash Core executives. ] Debit Cards – Dash is now available on multiple cryptocurrency debit cards, allowing users to spend their Dash at a retailer that accepts Visa. Currently, there are about 40 million of these companies.

At the 2017 Dash Conference held in London in September, Dash Core CEO Ryan Taylor announced that a number of integrations would arrive at # 39; future.

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Integration with several large retailers

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2 blocks of MB

Developers knew that the will of Dash to integrate adoption never went to earth if the money network could not evolve. While Bitcoin and Ethereum have begun working on off-line scaling solutions, Dash has announced that it is pursuing scaling chain solutions using larger blocks which would be handled by Dash's incentive network. The 12.2 version of the Dash Core software, and when sufficiently minor and updated masternodes, a block increase of 2 MB was blocked. Today, the largest blocks have officially become active, and Dash is now able to process twice the number of transactions per second. In the not-too-distant future, Dash will again increase its block size to 5 MB.

Go big or go home

Last summer, the founder of Dash, Evan Duffield announced that the developers had a currency scale plan using massively large blocks. As part of the plan, the size of the Dash Blocks would gradually increase to 45 MB or more, which would allow the network to handle up to 50 million users. The plan would work by requiring manternodes to run custom hardware capable of handling such large blocks. Masternode owners could afford this expensive equipment because their nodes receive 45% of the block reward – about $ 65,000 a year, at current prices.

Budgeting to Succeed

Dash's budget system was a critical part of currency growth. Each month, 10% of the all-in-one rewards are reserved for budget submissions. The owners of Masternode, who each control 1,000 DASH, vote on these proposals and those that are approved are paid directly by Dash's Blockchain. At current prices, Dash's budget system is able to fund $ 5 million worth of projects each month. This money pays the Dash development team, community projects, conference attendance, business integrations and more.

Increasing adoption

Some argue that Dash can not hope to compete with established behemoths like Bitcoin and Ethereum, whose market capitalization Dash Dash. Yet others, like Max Keizer, believe that there is plenty of room for several cryptocurrencies to survive. Keizer's Notes:

"Dash is becoming the payment crypto rail while Bitcoin claims to be Gold 2.0.I suggest to those who are frustrated with the debate over the on the Bitcoin scale to accept Dash for payments and let Bitcoin Core continue to work on Gold 2.0. "

Meanwhile, Taylor comments: