OriginTrail is the world’s first decentralised knowledge graph that uses a decentralised protocol to build transparency in the supply chain.
The OriginTrail network is powered by the Trace (TRAC) cryptocurrency, which enables true decentralisation and is an ERC20, Ethereum-based cryptographic coin.
Developers note that OriginTrail is more of an ecosystem than a company, which is based on a token economy with shared relations between users and network nodes. The ecosystem is based on a neutral Web3 protocol that enables safe data sharing between companies, organisations and blockchains via a decentralised knowledge graph network monitored by artificial intelligence (AI) and oracles.
The TRAC coin saw a bearish trend following its initial coin offering (ICO) at $0.10 on 17 January 2018 and fell to $0.01997 by the same time the following year. The coin then kept decreasing until it reached its all-time low value of $0.00556 on 13 March 2020.
TRAC started to gain momentum by the end of 2020 and reached its all-time high of $2.6809 on 1 November 2021 as the ecosystem participated in the NFT NYC gathering for non-fungible token enthusiasts, gaining much exposure.
After hitting its all-time high in November, the cryptocurrency’s price started to fluctuate, dropping to $0.7955 at time of writing (21 January 2022). But can it regain its momentum, and what factors are shaping OriginTrail price prediction going forward?
What is OriginTrail (TRAC) coin?
The OriginTrail core team, consisting of four professionals within the supply chain, blockchain and management sectos Žiga Drev, Tomaž Levak, Branimir Rakić, and Jurij Škornik, believe that amid globalisation, trade supply chains are facing an increasing complexity, which heightens information asymmetry.
After five years of working alongside supply chain clients, the project’s team identified that much of the data in supply chains was fragmented and was lacking a suitable decentralised solution that would provide the perfect performance, scalability and trust for interconnected data in supply chains while also being cost-effective.
With that in mind, OriginTrail was created.
The first of its kind, the ecosystem’s technology uses a decentralised knowledge graph (DKG) that makes global supply chain data structured, linked, persistent and understandable. What this means is that OriginTrail created a decentralised protocol made for sharing supply chain data based on blockchain, making the global supply more transparent.
In short, OriginTrail allows IT providers to easily set up blockchain-supported data-sharing supply chains, and supports data of various formats, from those used for supply chain tracking to documents and official certificates.
While using the OriginTrail Decentralised Network (ODN), an implementation of the DKG, people can look for information across a number of systems, exchange it through several data exchange protocols and integrate it into their own local knowledge graph or data store.
The ODN is an open-source protocol that uses decentralised nodes that allow companies and organisations to share information between themselves safely.
OriginTrail’s native cryptocurrency, TRAC, powers the decentralised knowledge graph (DKG) and drives the entire ODN as a utility token. The coin also acts as a collateral that keeps data creators honest and their data immutable.
The TRAC coin can be used on the ODN in several ways:
- For participation: data creators must own TRAC in order to be able to participate in the ODN.
- For publishing data: data creators must pay in TRAC for their data to be published on the ODN, which is locked in a smart contract until the completion of the data.
- For collateralisation: data holders will have to pay a fee in TRAC to prevent data tampering.
- As a Polkadot Native Token: OriginTrail plans to bid for a parachain slot on the Polkadot network that will introduce a “wrapper” form of TRAC.
- For staking: this will be introduced in the upcoming Version 6.0 of the ODN (2022).
- For monetisation: ODN users will soon be able to monetise their data either by charging certain individuals to access it, selling it or introducing fractionalised ownership over data to different parties.
A total of 500 million TRAC tokens are available. The coin has a market capitalisation of over $289m (as of 21 January 2022) and is ranked 161st on CoinMarketCap with a market dominance rating of 0.02%.
OriginTrail is used by a number of major companies and organisations including Home Depot, Walmart and Target, as well as the US Department of Homeland Security.
TRAC price: Price analysis
During its four years in circulation, the TRAC coin suffered quite the journey, reaching its all-time low value of $0.00556 on 13 March 2020, a 94% decline from its ICO price of $0.10 on 17 January 2018.
On 16 May 2018, OriginTrail announced that its team would participate in a number of high-profile events in Asia from May 23 until June 21. However, that did not aid the coin’s price as it dropped to $0.1255 on 21 June 2018.
For the next three years, TRAC’s price continued to decrease despite OriginTrail being the first blockchain start-up to be awarded Walmart’s Food Safety Innovation Spark Award , participating at the GS1 Global Forum in 2019 and partnering with the British Standards Institution (BSI).
The token stayed on a bearish trend until its price started to gain momentum at the start of 2021 after the ecosystem released its development update for the coming year announcing that Starfleet, the programme that will bring the ODN to the final stage of its initially envisioned protocol implementation that will operate in a multi-blockchain environment, will be released in early Q1 of the following year.
Since then, the coin’s price steadily grew, reaching its first $1 value on 25 October 2021, but it was not until 2 November 2021 when the token reached its all-time high of $2.6809 amid OriginTrail’s participation at the annual NFT NYC event. This was a 2,580% surge since its ICO.
In addition, on 2 November TRAC became available in supported regions on Coinbase Pro, which also triggered the token’s jump in price.
The cryptocurrency’s value fell to $1.4127 on 18 November 2021 and kept declining despite new partnership arrangements with Acala in late November. Since the all-time high in November, TRAC has lost 75.27% of its value, as of time of writing (20 January 2022).
Technical analysis provided by CoinCodex shows that short-term sentiment on TRAC is bearish, with 22 indicators showing bearish signals and nine showing bullish signals at time of writing.
In most recent TRAC coin news, OriginTrail announced on 27 December 2021 that it would start the launch of version 6 of the DKG, bringing the token’s price, which had been falling since its all-time high in November, up to $1.3046.
OriginTrail (TRAC) price prediction 2022-2030
Despite recent bearish results, algorithm-based forecasting service WalletInvestor gave a bullish TRAC token price prediction, saying that it is an “awesome long-term investment”.
Based on its analysis of the cryptocurrency’s past performance, the forecasting service predicted that TRAC could cost $1.858 next year and $5.170 in five years.
DigitalCoinPrice’s forecast also anticipated bullish results for TRAC, noting that the TRAC crypto price prediction for December 2022 is $0.4239. The coin’s price could rise to $0.6886 in December 2025, according to the site.
Although no TRAC crypto price prediction for 2030 is currently available, DigitalCoinPrice estimated that the coin will reach $1.22 in December 2029.
Please note that price predictions can be wrong. Forecasts shouldn’t be used as a substitute for your own research. Always conduct your own due diligence before investing. And never invest or trade money you cannot afford to lose.
Analyst views on TRAC
Jenny Zheng, co-founder of Blockcast.cc and an early blockchain advocate, said that TRAC may continue to grow in 2022 if Covid-19 continues to restrict travel and affect work processes.
BigONE Exchange chair Anndy Lian said that TRAC has the potential to grow if OriginTrail focuses its problem=solving on “more teething problems such as storage efficiency”.
Lian added that if OriginTrail can manage to get “top supply chain companies to try their tech offerings, they can reach their all-time high again even if the market is bearish”.
“TRAC’s most recent spike in value was on 27 December, when it reached $1.4748. Due to this, we can expect the token to reach $1.2 at the most throughout February of 2022, assuming it breaks the $1 price barrier,” Invezz crypto analyst Milko Trajcevski told Capital.com.
Original Source: https://capital.com/origintrail-trac-price-prediction
Anndy Lian is an early blockchain adopter and experienced serial entrepreneur who is known for his work in the government sector. He is a best selling book author- “NFT: From Zero to Hero” and “Blockchain Revolution 2030”.
Currently, he is appointed as the Chief Digital Advisor at Mongolia Productivity Organization, championing national digitization. Prior to his current appointments, he was the Chairman of BigONE Exchange, a global top 30 ranked crypto spot exchange and was also the Advisory Board Member for Hyundai DAC, the blockchain arm of South Korea’s largest car manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group. Lian played a pivotal role as the Blockchain Advisor for Asian Productivity Organisation (APO), an intergovernmental organization committed to improving productivity in the Asia-Pacific region.
An avid supporter of incubating start-ups, Anndy has also been a private investor for the past eight years. With a growth investment mindset, Anndy strategically demonstrates this in the companies he chooses to be involved with. He believes that what he is doing through blockchain technology currently will revolutionise and redefine traditional businesses. He also believes that the blockchain industry has to be “redecentralised”.
