Price movements recently, and pretty much all year, have been nothing to do with what is going on at populous. They haven't had any major developments to trigger bullish sentiment but there hasn't really been anything bearish since the stuff about the CEO came out. Look at an Eth chart and then almost any ERC-20 token chart. They are almost identical, with possible exaggeration in movements in tokens. Don't buy into the hype or fear until there is something to be hyped or fearful of. I'm waiting for an Eth bottom to get more tokens across my portfolio, including populous because nothing has really moved independently for the past few months.
It's seems Populous price movements recently due bump dump groups, as we don't see any any major developments update on Populous platform at this time.
Pump is common in altcoins, as long as this is good, of course everyone is free to do it, there is nothing forbidden in crypto, but I'm happy because prices rose more than 30% and trading volume reached a record high for 3 months because it reached more than $ 17 million in a day.