I don't think it will reach $10 though. waves has been promoted massively and if eople hyped it like how they did on ETH, it may somehow reach $5. that may just be the peak of it.
How useful can this wave be by the way?
As much as id like it to hit 5 dollar, theres 2 chances of that, Slim and none. even if the ico gets to 10000 btc thats roughly 4.5 mil for the ico across 100 million coins. It would take some serious investment from people post ico to bring it up to 5 dollars per coin. Obviously not impossible but something that very few coins have managed to do so far. 99% of coins just dissapear down the drain.
I think the question is how unique and revolutionary is the Waves platform going to be? While it is correct that a majority of coins go "down the drain," I think it's clear that Waves is not your ordinary coin right from the start. So for me price speculation for Waves really centers on how unique and successful one believes they can be with this project. The potential for something special seems to be here.
Waves team is building first production system on top of Scorex framework where Waves token will be the fuel of whole platform and all transactions happening there, When you will be trading with other crypto currencies or fiat which will be represented there as tokens, Waves token will be used, when you are transferring assets, Waves token is used, when you are withdrawing asset in form of currency to your wallet, Waves token is used. When someone is issuing the asset Waves token is used. When all other projects will be using Waves platform, the same Waves token will be used for all their operations. Other currencies will be just supported on the platform. Focus is on custom asset creation, lite client, end-user, no blockchain download, decentralized exchange, asset-asset trading, fiat assets, working with payment providers from the start and being decentralized kickstarter at the same time. Waves will have own transaction types also. Other features and apps/plugins center will be appearing in meantime.
$5+ is reachable.