I have been monitoring opal for some time and this is the 1st time the price managed to breach 1k.
Opal has tons of good news, people just need to hear about it.
If your wondering what sparked the increase in price.. your guess is as good as mine.
Traders buy for all sorts of reasons, sometime because they've researched there investments or they see a quick profit following trends.
Here are a few things that might have motivated the sudden movement (which if your watching Opal, wasn't actually very sudden):
1. Opal Marketplace countdown is almost up.
http://www.opalmarket.me/#
2. Press release published a few days ago on Marketplace.
http://www.cryptoarticles.com/press-releases/opal-to-release-marketplace-for-digital-products
3. Steady and almost predictable growth in price.
https://cryptrader.com/c/k5GJtygW
4. Members of the Opal community talking about Opal.
https://twitter.com/search?q=%24opal&src=typd
https://twitter.com/hashtag/opalcoin
My bet is number 4, as I said before, it's up to the community if Opal will succeed.
Thanks Opeople your making Opal know across the Cryptoshere