PPCUSD has broken out of longterm consolidation. BTCUSD is in a bull trend and fresh money has been entering the AltCoin space and some of this money is finding its way into peercoin. PPCBTC has signaled a trend reversal form bear to bull and is now working its way through longterm resistance. The real resistance is however much higher. Fundamentally speaking Peercoin plays a role as both a leveraged bet on hot money and a hedge against the potential failure of Bitcoin Proof-of-Work as the oldest Proof-of-Stake (If PoW doesn't work, Proof-of-Stake is arguable the only other option I know of). There is also new technology being built using Peercoin a platform.