If anything can be said about this, it is the last chance for $2 shift before phantom gets released, before multi-market exposure, before any active marketing whatsoever. As of now, Shift is the only decentralized internet project with a working Beta. Maidsafe has been around for a decade, has gone through initial funding, an ICO, crowdfunding, and is still--assuming it does not get pushed back again--weeks away from an Alpha 2 release. As far as I can tell, the only advantage it has going for it over Shift is brand awareness. Blockstack seems promising, but it is still ways away from a cohesive product, and their own tokens won't be rolled out for another few months anyway. Sia and Storj have the potential to build a decentralized internet on top of their storage platforms, but I doubt they have any plans to do so over the next couple of years, let alone to seriously meditate on the idea.

The fact of the matter is, companies like Shift are chasing an industry that is worth $17 Trillion. Granted that number is based on the internet in its entirety, but if Shift manages to grab a slice of the pie, we are still dealing with a cryptocurrency with the potential to join the multi-billion dollar market cap club. I cannot think of a more undervalued coin than shift: it is ahead of its competitors, is valued at 10x less than Maidsafe, currently has very little hype, and most importantly has solid real-world applicability.