From low to high in 4 weeks, actually more than 500% when you take in inflation of 50% more Coins during those 30 days as well, I don't think you can really count the initial pump of price discovery.

There was no ICO/IPO

Mudda had a 50K premine for making it, in the original ann topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=912034.0

he said he couldn't keep going, I decided to make some changes to it in order to improve it, changed the rewards, the difficulty, added a few features, got some social media going.

Market isn't that big yet but can easily find more uses in order to create more liquidity.