Taking a look at the top 22 cryptocurrencies by market cap, we’ve seen some big movers the last week or so. Bitcoin causing major waves in the market, breaking $3,200 two days ago — passing $3,300 last night, and reaching nearly $3,400 earlier today. Talk about an insane growth spurt for Bitcoin. Many believe it will continue to fly, passing $5,000 in the coming months. Now, that’s some major speculation, but who really knows considering Bitcoin sat at around $1,900 just a month ago…crazy times to be a cryptocurrency enthusiast!

Starting at the top with NEM — they just released an ICO platform called COMSA with the Tech Bureau Japan. This comes days after their proprietary blockchain solution, Mijn, was being tested at Japanese nuclear plants.

Next is IOTA with 90% growth over the past 7-days. As we can see from the tweet below — IOTA just released an update as well. This comes days after the Bitcoin Network fork…seeing a trend here? Seems as though these blockchain ecosystems have been waiting for the fork and market to relax a bit. I think this trend will only continue with more major updates coming from these ecosystems.

NEO — re-branded Antshares — is making waves right now with 150% growth over the past 7-days. As we can see by the Tweet below, NEO is being very loud about their partnerships, growth, and future plans to grow their blockchain ecosystem. NEO has been coined by many community members as the “Chinese Ethereum.” Should be interesting to follow their growth — wouldn’t be a bad time to grab some considering it was just $5 a few weeks ago!

It doesn’t stop there. NEO has been extremely active in their Reddit community, making sure to update the community while also providing a great channel of communication, daily. Here’s August 8th’s discussion thread for NEO community. As we can see below, over the past month, NEO has grown nearly 4x. This comes just weeks after their re-brand. Many traders were unsure what was going to happen, but this looks like the greatest turnout that could be expected.

Waves is another community that experienced major growth over the past few days. Just 7-days ago Waves Token was sitting at $2.70. Now passing $5.50, they just added a new CMO to the leadership team — this is HUGE considering most cryptocurrency ecosystems simply lack the marketing strategy necessary for a blockchain ecosysystem like this to thrive. The Waves token is similar to Ethereum in the sense that it is being used to launch ICOs and Token Sales through the Waves Lite Desktop Wallet — WAVES DEX.

I hope this update gives you some insight into what’s happening in the exciting world of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology! Please follow along and share to help grow The Cryptosphere we are all a part of! Thank you d[^_^]b