ETHEREUM The value increase of Ether has been grate and the value per ETH has passed $365 and seems to maintain that value with no problems some people think that ETH is only going up because of the hype rather then the actual value then again you need ETH to buy into most cryptocurrency ICOs.
SIACOIN is known for sharing excess hard disk space with other people looking for storage solutions and there getting very close to providing actual decentralized file storage solutions by the masses its only right for the coin value to go up.
STRATIS The stratis value has been like a roller coaster these past few weeks with the value surging none stop for almost a week it almost looks like a pump but since then the value corrected its self and is now stable around $9 and a new wallet update was released not to long ago and it looks like the developers are making grate progress on the Breeze wallet it has also been confirmed you can mine PoS blocks in the Breeze wallet.
MAIDSAFE people were caught by surprise when maidsafe value suddenly started to go up a few days ago. it seems like the recent development updates may have something to do with it. The maidsafe concept is geting closer to finalization which is grate for people trying to decentralized the internet.
BLACKCOIN some people may have forgotten about blackcoin the crypto is still around and one of the main areas of focuse for the project is to improve the proof of stake protocol blackcoin is also the first proof of stake currency to help key components in bitcoin core 0.12