IOTA is more than just a cryptocurrency.
IOTA seems solid for the upcoming year 2018. IOTA has been collaborating and partnering with renowned organizations to integrate and create a Machine to Machine (M2M) economy.
IOTA can be used as a payment mode similar to Bitcoin but that's the least purpose of IOTA's existence.
IOTA's tie-up with BOSCH is the biggest move which could send IOTA literally to the moon. IOTA has many other companies willing to integrate their sensors for helping to grow this automated M2M economy.
It makes a transaction possible without any fees and facilitates micro-payments which is required to create M2M economy.
Recently RBVC (Robert Bosch Venture Capital) decided to acquire a sizable amount of IOTA as their holdings. You can see the following post from David (Co-creator of IOTA);
IOTA is up in top 6 as per CMC charts as of writing this post.
My prediction for 2018:
IOTA may shoot anywhere in between 15x to 30x in the year 2018. I am assuming/predicting this as not only the project development is on full swing but they are doing magnificent progress and so many big organization are looking forward to take part in it to improve the whole economy.
Do your own research but I think IOTA looks strong besides the prime coins BTC/ETH/LTC. Hail IOTA...