Crypto storage token, Storj (STORJ), has rallied over the past two days, doubling its market worth because it sees a rise in buying and selling quantity.

The native token of the protocol witnessed a 43% rise on Tuesday, and reached a excessive of $0.58 on Wednesday, in accordance with knowledge from TradingView. The market capitalization of the token reached a excessive of $223 million on Wednesday from $143 million on Monday.

The token has since retreated barely to round $0.42 on the time publication. Bitcoin (BTC), the world’s largest cryptocurrency, has been buying and selling flat over the previous two days and is down barely on Wednesday.

There seems to be little proof over what is precisely driving the rally however the uptick comes as South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency trade, Upbit, witnessed a big improve in buying and selling volumes for the token. The trade contributed 57% of STORJ’s spot buying and selling quantity, in accordance with Colin Wu, at information outlet WuBlockchain.

Storj was created in 2014, and was constructed to take underutilized capability on computer systems and let customers lease it out to then be compensated in tokens. Storj is one of some competing crypto-backed cloud storage platforms and is usually described as an alternative choice to cloud storage platforms like these supplied by Amazon or Google.

Ben Golub, CEO at Storj, informed CoinDesk in Might that 75% of its customers don’t have anything to do with crypto. Their customers vary from college’s storing scientific work, AI work to individuals who must retailer video.

“The College of Edinburgh is a giant buyer of ours, they retailer lots of their physics analysis with us,” stated Golub in Might.

Filecoin (FIL), a competitor of Storj’s, has not witnessed the identical rally and was buying and selling round 2% larger on the day.