I expect SHIFT to enter top100 market cap coins next year. It would mean doubling actual price and reaching approximately $50 mil. USD market cap. This is not "x10" coin, but still a great investment for the next year
Disclaimer: I hodl a decent amount of SHIFT by myself.
I entered a significant SHIFT position earlier this quarter at a DCA of $1.05. I did this because I fully believe that it can 5x - 10x over coming months.
The rationale behind the Zencash pump for example was that it was undervalued at less than 10% of its parent project Zcash. Lisk has a $1.1b market cap. Shift is a Lisk clone which is closer to having a real killer app (Phantom for IPFS decentralized web and file hosting) launched than any other project I'm aware of, including Lisk (but admittedly, I don't know a lot about Lisk so I may be missing some critical differentiators). Nonetheless, based on the development progress and head start Shift has had, I do think that Phantom is on pace to retain a first mover advantage for the decentralized hosting niche. If Shift is the first javascript friendly all-in-one dApp platform to actually launch a killer app for adoption in a substantial use case, I don't see why the market cap wouldn't increase to at least 10% of the Lisk market cap. That would put Shift at over $110m which would be 7.3x from the current price.
Obviously I am incentivized to shill Shift because I own it, but I wouldn't have invested when the market cap was already ~$12m if I didn't believe it has a 5x -
10x potential. I would be really interested however to hear why others may disagree with my reasoning. I am definitely not an expert by any means, it just seems like common sense to me that there are enough pros in terms of development progress, no ICO, platform accessibility with JS support, low present market cap, and already being listed on Bittrex, to make this a pretty likely candidate for whales to get in, sooner or later, especially if the killer app (Phantom) testnet launch occurs on time before the end of December. That is what the new website will be hosted on when it launches before the end of next month: the actual IPFS decentralized hosting dApp in its working beta version.
EDIT: Another factor in my expectations as well, that I forgot to mention, is that Shift's ATH was ~112k satoshis. If the new website is successfully hosted through the prototype of its Phantom dApp, then I'd expect Shift can at least achieve the former ATH. At current btc prices, 112k satoshis would be $9.22 per Shift token or approximately $105m market cap. This is a separate, additional line of reasoning which led me to the same expectation of 5x - 10x. Does this make sense?