Regardless of whether or not you believe in Verge or wholeheartedly believe it is a scam, we will ultimately find out on April 17, 2018.

Whether or not Verge is a currency that will be around in six months and become the much-hyped top three market cap coin, or ultimately die by its own sword.

It's hard to dispute that the Verge project has been through many ups and downs, most notably a recent situation where an attack saw a hacker gain 51% of the Verge network and perform a 51% attack which is considered quite rare for a coin in the top 25 by market cap.

The attack resulted in Verge having to fork to address the problem. Then before that in late 2017, there was controversy where Verge and John McAfee were fighting over promotion of the project, messages were revealed and it shook investor confidence.

Then a few weeks ago Sunerok (lead Verge dev) promised a large announcement to be made April 17, 2018.

Rumours have been flying around about who the partner could be:

Amazon

eBay

PayPal

Square

MindGeek

Ayden

Flipkart

Netflix

Spotify

Sunerok has also been hyping the announcement a lot, dangerous levels of hype I would say if the announcement wasn't a big deal and delivers as expected, Sunerok is going to be going into witness protection because some of these Verge hodlers are crazy.

The logic around the partnership is that whoever it is will want to implement private transactions and afford their users the comfort of private transactions, something a porn site would probably be interested in adopting. Banks already have Ripple (XRP), so hardly likely it's a bank partnership.

Based on what we have been told and what has been hyped this is what we know based on the limited information available:

The April 17 partnership will be one of the biggest partnerships in crypto history

That this announcement will send Verge into the top 3 rankings on CMC (which means it would have to reach $1.50)

That the announcement will change the perception of crypto

The partnership is with a global organisation with a vast network of high traffic sites

The company is looking to enter the cryptocurrency market and use Verge as the preferred form of payment method for hundreds of millions of potential consumers daily

In an interview with Bitplex, Sunerok mentions in regards to the partnership:

they are a multi billion dollar company, international. they have offices everywhere. they are the top tier of a 100bill a year market. i met with them in person a few months ago.

Things feel a little dangerous and uncertain right now because you've got YouTuber's like Chronic Crypto making crazy predictions that Verge will hit $17 per coin from its current 9 cents now, that would be unprecedented and unrealistic growth: