Everyone is praying that a 1.0 release is going to reverse a crumbling bitshares share price... ask yourself, what happens if the price doesn't lift after the release? Most likely the 1.0 release is already baked into the price... Markets are discounting mechanisms
Our share price isn't crumbling. It fell as a result of dilution being priced in and has since maintained a fairly stable BTC value, only declining recently vs. BTC on their Coinbase, US exchange announcement.
If they give a specific release date it's likely a lot of the gains will be made leading up to it but generally strong crypto development news is greeted with significant gains.
Looking at last year, we all knew BitAssets were coming but BTSX stayed under $20 million and then gained 500% in a week leading up to and on the back of the BitAsset release.
This isn't as big as that but a lot of positive developments should hopefully be coming together and I expect a decent price increase as a result. How much we hold and where we go from there will be based on the perception of how much BitAssets are being used, adopted & growing.