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While Ethereum's launch started 'Blockchain2', with the on-chain computational possibilities, it dropped the ball with regard to performance and cost. Whilst all the hype and pump was happening, not just with Ethereum but also all the 'cutnpaste' uncompliant ICOs, people overlooked the severe performance issues and high transactional costs. It's disappointing that with all the resources they had available, the Ethereum team didn't address these issues and are now late to the party.

Before Waves launched in 2016, the founders realised the importance of the features that Ethereum spearheaded and employed but realised that the platform would need to be able to satisfy 3 key citeria;

1: Mass uptake ready - the blockchain would need to be the fastest available and highest capacity available. Basic features like token creation and trading would need to be native to the system - enabling highest performance and lowest transactional cost. Sponsored transactions were needed so that businesses could launch a token and take care of transaction costs as part of their business model.

2: The consensus algorithm would need to be POS - and the current Leased POS was employed. A new model for Smart Contracts was needed (especially after the DAO) that promoted safe code and reasonable cost of computation.

3: The user software, API's and documentation would need to be state of the art and World class.

Initially many ideas were taken from NEXT and Ethereum to acheive these goals, but the software itself was developed using the SCALA language to provide the best balance of performance, stability and portability. All the UI elements were built out using best practices in HTML5/Node stacks.

Whilst other platforms, much newer than Ethereum or Waves gave up on basic cryptocurrency red lines, for example distributed nodes and permissionless models, Waves, like Ethereum, has stayed true to the Open, Distributed and Permissionless model which is what makes cryptocurrency so cool.

Waves is not hyped - the team prefer to just develop and build a strong community - but for anyone who hasn't heard of Waves or has, but never investigated the potential - check out the user software at https://wavesplatform.com/ (https://wavesplatform.com/). Or download the world class mobile app on Play or App store. You'll be blown away by how far Waves has come in the last two and a bit years. While you are at it - check out the quality and care of documentation and other support services.

I notice it's gone from 50 to 25 place in CoinMarketCap and, apart from fiatcoins, is just about only thing pumping.

Any big news?

Last week they released the mobile 2 app - I checked it out and in my view is the most polished professional crypto app I have yet seen.

This week I think they make some big announcement about their Vostok project - Vostok is the consulting wing of Waves methinks.

What is so great about their mobile app other than their cover? nothing much significant compared to any other mobile app.
for you, it is a great thing but for some people, it does not. if I remember it correctly.
at first, when they said about that Vostok thing, we were hearing an outrage from the community even though it is good for the waves itself.
even if they are announcing this next week, who knows what will happen right? cryptocurrency is full of manipulation, the only reason why this coins got pumped so hard due to a long phase of accumulation.

Waves is always described as a undervalued. But even the times everything was pumping, waves didn't pump that much. Community couldn't like it some reason.

Waves is good platform, but
"Waves is not hyped - the team prefer to just develop and build a strong community"
- maybe a little hype need add to waves community to be strong.

You can't manipulate the fact that it is fastest, decentralised blockchain in existence - extensively documented.

Yes they are not a pump and dump coin, and they are moving on nicely on their development, I'm so sorry that I have sold all my Waves this is a coin that is now performing well, even if the market is not showing a good sign, I might buy again if they continue to give us update.

I agree that the Waves did not allow the same mistakes that were made by the Ethereum team. They came thoroughly to many questions!

Waves is a very interesting project, that's why I'm holding some coins, but I really hope they will find a solution for their decentralized exchange as for tokens that are under waves blockchain liquidity is near 0...

I also noticed that the waves always behave differently in times of crisis in the market. the coin has not fallen so much and is now showing good growth in a bear market

I really like the waves platform. Just a pity that there are so few ico on waves. If there were more ico on it, waves could continue to move more forward. But maybe that will all happen in 2019.

Waves one of the good project which already is working well. I don't know it will rise or not. But I am sure if it will work properly, then its investors can be happy soon!

Quality over quantity. The old days when people could cutnpaste a website template, knockout a whitepaper on Word, post up some imaginary people on linkedIn with no decent business model or use-case and no regard to regulatory compliance have gone, luckily.

Waves, right from the start, chose development over hype and compliance over the 'Wild West'.

As someone said (God, apparantly!), once; 'Build it, and they will come'!

Waves still need more time to develop.
People will eventually get into waves and its platform.
They will rise in the market and i think this one could make it to top 20 or higher!

It will carry on developing, ceaselessly. Check out Blocktivity https://www.blocktivity.info/ (https://www.blocktivity.info/) Waves is always in Top 10.

However it is probably in top 3, maybe top, technically advanced blockchains currently.

Yes, I agree, and the waves each time show an increasingly impressive effect, now large and successful projects place owls tokens on the waves,and the exchange they have earned norms,and most importantly they have transactions very operational steel,and very fast, so now transfers do everything instantly happens, the project is cool

Waves is quickly showing itself to be better than ETH, but so are many other coins and if some of them deliver they'll be a further improvement on ETH. There is so much competition in this field that many will never get the market share that they deserve. ETH benefited so much from being a first mover as bitcoin has done so over the years.

Yeah.. Waves, i favor Waves than coins like NEO during 2017 until now
I have no idea why NEO pumped so hard but Waves didn't really move

Their development is so progressive and if you follow their medium, you can see that updates is given time by time

of all the existing Smartcontrac Platforms, maybe only Waves is less popular. I rarely even see information about this project. and maybe there are currently no ico projects that use their platform.

Waves has been the under dog for years now in terms of value, even if we consider waves project as a proxy or shadow project to ethereum it is still massively undervalued, in my opinion waves deserve to be atleast 10 bucks value.

I honestly tell you that before I hold some of it then I sell it when its price was 0.00085BTC, then when I look at its price now I felt that I'm in the year of 2016 If I am not mistaken, I just could even imagine that on 2017 its price value was 0.001BTC almost at now fully dumped its price again. Though, I still have a little bit belief on it but not as high comparing before.

Why $ 10, if you really believe that waves are a quality project, he should have a greater value than this.

Me personally a big fan of waves, I'm using it all the time, and very happy that they now have updated their mobile wallet with new slick design. And waves had given me one of the first huge profit on the market.

Recently Waves updated their mobile app, Launched Smart contracts, developed their version of Meta Mask and rolled it out for chrome and mozilla (Waves Keeper), so now browsers can seamlessly interact with dApps built on Waves. I am not aware of any existing yet though. There is some political development with their agreement with Malta government to build an STO platform (Tokenomica project), Vostok is coming (Private blockchain solution).
Check out their NOvember update video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojpn5b_lcAY

With the level development that has been happening on the platform of some coins, there is every possible for them to experience outstanding growth. I was also surprised when i saw waves growing.
I could remember that i saw a flash of the announced somewhere, but i did not pay rapt attention to it. It was when it started growing again that i decided to look at what is happening.
I think waves has the tendency to rise more up the ladder.

Waves is one of my biggest altcoin holds.
Gives optimism in bear market.
Love the team!
Go WAVES  ;D