The cryptocurrency market is presently in a correction stage, correcting its prices because of the massive bull run that happened late 2017 and the correction period is always longer than the increase period. Veteran's in the market understand this very well and are focused on buying the bottoms but the newbies are the ones complaining and nagging about the market prices.
Any hype doesn't affect the market nowadays. We can't really announce some hardfork in order to drive the market up again, we need the investors to take part in the market. Even I, myself is pushing to drive the market up in a way that I support projects and buy a little bit of crypto.