Kusama's KSM price underwent a strong 70% breakout on Feb. 15 as excitement continues to build for the Kusama and Polkadot ecosystems ahead of the upcoming parachain auctions.

Kusama price soars lxx%

Information from Cointelegraph Markets and TradingView shows that KSM rose from $134 to a peak at $236 in the early hours of Feb.16 earlier turn a profit-selling pulled the toll back to $194.

KSM/USDT four-hour chart. Source: TradingView

Kusama is an experimental interoperable blockchain platform that is ofttimes referred to as a "Polkadot's wild cousin" due to having a like codebase. The protocol is built on Substrate, the developer kit/framework for the Polkadot blockchain, and designed to be an interoperable, scalable framework for developers.

Projects that eventually want to launch on Polkadot have the opportunity to launch on Kusama starting time to test how their protocol will operate in the wild and to access features that are not available still on Polkadot.

Social media activity, market place sentiment ascension for KSM

Scrolling through Kusma's Twitter feed indicates that the latest rally is being driven by hype around the upcoming parachain auctions for both KSM and Polkadot's DOT. A parachain (parallelizable chain) is a simpler form of blockchain that benefits from the security provided by a "relay chain" rather than its own.

VORTECS™ data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro began to observe a bullish outlook for KSM on Feb.14, prior to the recent price rising.

Cointelegraph Markets Pro - VORTECS™ Score (green) vs. KSM Price

The VORTECS™ score, exclusive to Cointelegraph, is an algorithmic comparing of historic and current market atmospheric condition derived from a combination of information points including market place sentiment, trading volume, recent toll movements and Twitter activeness.

Equally seen in the chart to a higher place, the VORTECS™ score hitting a low of 52 on Feb.thirteen, which was followed by a slight pass up in the toll of KSM. The score then began to increment to a high of 69 on Feb. fourteen, 24 hours ahead of the cost breakout to a higher place $200.

Despite the pullback from recent highs, both Twitter and trading volume remain elevated, with the project currently experiencing a 565% increment in Twitter mentions and a 194% increment in average book.

With the verbal date of the parachain auctions still unknown, excitement in the communities is likely to keep to build as quality projects vie for the express parachain slots and endeavor to become central pieces in the Kusama and Polkadot ecosystems.