Is there a reason for the sudden increase?
- The success of hard fork voting on testnet.
Decred has the first "smart blockchain", which implements the voting result automatically, without human interference.
Decred will be really decentralised. Will be a real DAO.
All security measures have been taken in the code so that in case of hard fork it is not possible to use the previous one, as happened with ETH / ETC.
- Presentation of currency on Coinbase by Jake Yocom-Piatt
- New puzzle by coin_artist et al with around $2000 in prize
- Marketing and press campaign