What is it about WAVES?

[Seeker214]

I have noticed, since lurking on these forums, that a lot of people here are invested in or excited about WAVES. Maybe I dont understand the potential in its platform but it seems to me that it has had a hard time maintaining upward momentum and nothing I have read makes me think that it will excel in the future. What is all the fuss about? Why invest in WAVES instead of seemingly more innovative projects like IOTA that set out to change the formula?

[sylance]

I noticed that as well.  Tons of interest in Waves, and what's interesting is the interest doesn't seem to match the price or volume of trades.  Full disclosure, I'm one of those that frequently contribute to Waves threads in a positive manner.  I love the interest and enthusiasm around Waves, I just wish it'd translate to a price increase.

To answer your question... I think the general interest in Waves is that they have a strong dev team and they launched with a nearly complete full package.  There's a wallet, a fully functioning web wallet, master-nodes, leasing, a basic exchange, token creation, and it can even store some fiat.  That's a pretty healthy crypto ecosystem... now it just needs to get leveraged by other devs, businesses, and consumers.

[yorklab]

Waves is working with Zencash to integrate Zencash into their platform. one to two months before completion. I"m sure there are others.

[YIz]

Waves is working working with Zencash to integrate Zencash into their platform. one to two months before completion. I"m sure there are others.

The Waves team should have large amounts of money reserved for future development, we'll see more from them soon.

[NerdYale]

I noticed that as well.  Tons of interest in Waves, and what's interesting is the interest doesn't seem to match the price or volume of trades.  Full disclosure, I'm one of those that frequently contribute to Waves threads in a positive manner.  I love the interest and enthusiasm around Waves, I just wish it'd translate to a price increase.

To answer your question... I think the general interest in Waves is that they have a strong dev team and they launched with a nearly complete full package.  There's a wallet, a fully functioning web wallet, master-nodes, leasing, a basic exchange, token creation, and it can even store some fiat.  That's a pretty healthy crypto ecosystem... now it just needs to get leveraged by other devs, businesses, and consumers.

I agree with you.  I think its the dev team wallet,  and even active faucets.

[add1ct3dd]

Waves is just like a copy of Ethereum but not a copy and like just obvoiusly same projects and platform that can do tokens just using there both platform and that's the nice of it if ethereum have been successfull now and how does waves that just like ethereum that can be successful also

[CraigWrightBTC]

Waves is the digital coins based on smart contract platform are like ethereum, ethereum classic and other altcoins that has fetures of dapps, here the source of information about waves will gives us good knowledge about waves https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1387944.0 the official website of waves https://wavesplatform.com/ also the capitalization of marketcap for waves
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/waves/

[robelneo]

Waves is just like a copy of Ethereum but not a copy and like just obvoiusly same projects and platform that can do tokens just using there both platform and that's the nice of it if ethereum have been successfull now and how does waves that just like ethereum that can be successful also

I strongly believe WAVES will become a strong and direct competitor of ethereum in the future, waves is a young platform and community support is continue building just like this thread so it's better to buy more waves while this low

[Seeker214]

Waves is just like a copy of Ethereum but not a copy and like just obvoiusly same projects and platform that can do tokens just using there both platform and that's the nice of it if ethereum have been successfull now and how does waves that just like ethereum that can be successful also

I strongly believe WAVES will become a strong and direct competitor of ethereum in the future, waves is a young platform and community support is continue building just like this thread so it's better to buy more waves while this low

But what does Waves bring to the table that will make it a real competitor to Ethereum? Ethereum surely has the ability to inovate beyond a "young platform with community support". This seems like a moon ticket pipe dream if that's all it is.

[steemshark]

Waves: I am just experimenting with it now.

That's a pretty high profile Burger King deal that they made, and it makes me wonder what kind of token distribution tech that Waves has, that millions of Burger King clients can easily collect and trade "Whopper" tokens!?!?!

I too want to launch a widely held token one day, so I am extremely interested if Waves has a solution, whereby normal people can open accounts and trade tokens.

As ETH is primarily just being used as an ICO platform, I can understand you all thinking that WAVES is a competitor with Ethereum... I disagree. Waves is much more like Bitshares (Open Ledger) and probably even more so like NXT which built all the stuff that WAVES is doing a long long time ago. But Ethereum is attempting to be much more. I think that the real competitors with ETH are NEO and EOS. I am betting on EOS to deliver on the promises of ETH. But time will tell. But I got off topic...

[ask]

All questions will get answer on October Hard Fork.
WAVES competitor is not ETHEREUM. They focused on transactions capacity and DEX (Exchange system on WAVES platform)
October hard fork will give too much power to WAVES which will give ability to beat VISA.
Also Loyalty programs are working amazing on WAVES platform lets wait and full the tanks before october hard fork.

[Minor Miner]

I think there is one more feature that makes (and will make) Waves successfull. I mean the team, especially Sasha Ivanov - CEO of Waves. He makes huge work about attracting different successful projects, which already exist or are planning to make an ICO. His influence is very hard to overestimate.

[lucky_girl]

Do you recommend invest something more in Waves until October?

[carlisle1]

I think there is one more feature that makes (and will make) Waves successfull. I mean the team, especially Sasha Ivanov - CEO of Waves. He makes huge work about attracting different successful projects, which already exist or are planning to make an ICO. His influence is very hard to overestimate.

that's statement will be proven after some works from sasha though if we still remember waves has been accused being an scam project but after a year
of existence waves showed that they have a good projection about this platform and we are seeing the great success and not been done yet, better to
watch for some more.

[m3mbr44n]

There was an interesting article recently that got some interest on reddit as well:
https://ridyardfinance.com/investments/2017/9/4/waves-waves-investment-analysis

[bearex]

Similar to Etherium and Neo (and maybe Stratis) in terms of usage. Has some benefits such as integrated Waves exchange. There are some tokens already on the platform. So i would say the hype is much like hype for Etherium and Neo.

[wpalczynski]

To me it's mostly the fact that they have a very strong team that I feel are trustworthy. I'm waiting for the october Hard Fork to see where this is heading though.

[ssu87]

Do you recommend invest something more in Waves until October?

now it is sticked to $ 5 band. If it drops below 5, you can try your chance. Cos, for a long period of time it hasnt dropped below 4.
(only during in july when bitcoin was hardforked it was $1.90)

you cant double your investment till October. Tiny profits maybe. It is a kind of long term now.

(my freaky thoughts. Use at your own risk)

[swissgang]

Because waves is a good platform, they have a good decentralized exchange and token creation system and a lot of coming feature though.

[muenze]

There will also be news this month already again on the burger king thing, as waves launches the app this month. This might attract another worldwide media coverage.

The media coverage in general I see as a huge benefit for Waves. Not many altcoins can attract worldwide coverage.

But I also agree its a bit odd that Waves isnt moving up but sticking to around $5 for a while despite good news. I was thinking maybe its a little bit of a disadvantage that they are from russia (they are, right?). Because this might put some investors from china or USA off.On the other side its also a huge chance as you have a product thats opposite to the US and Asia markets, which adds stability to your portfolio.