According to ICO, the current price is $ 4.5. It is interesting that the price of such a cooperative project does not increase much.
I think this is due to the fact, that you don't need BNT to use the Bancor Protocoll and the Bancor Website. All the transactions can be done in ETH. So BNT is basically the "fifth wheel on the wagon" (as we say in Germany). It is not really needed. The original promise to sponsor the gas for BNT transactions was not kept, so this was the only incentive to hold BNT over ETH.
My guess: The Bancor Protocol and the SmartTokens will thrive but no one will use BNT for this.
You will need to use BNT to use the platform app, to create smart token, token relay.
(This is the main function and goal of the project, not the transaction...)
To do transaction via the web app you don’t need bnt,
But every transaction that happen in the bancor app will involve bnt behinds the scene.
Example;
ETH > STOX
Behind the scene it happen like this
ETH>BNT>STX
Please understand the project before saying something that you didn’t know