Waves continues to crash - no surprise! Sasha's attempt to pump the price by buying up coins clearly failed, but what does he care about such unethical market manipulation - he took millions of dollars off a mass of suckers, and, according to others, behaved in a very shady way in the past.
Whether Waves succeeds or fails, Sasha is a winner - this isn't how free markets are meant to work!
this explanation could be the correct one:
https://www.coindesk.com/trump-administration-popped-2017-bitcoin-bubble-ex-cftc-chair-says