The rise in the price of ETH is not Vitalik's merit. ETH price increase is only because of the green altcoin market. There are no other reasons for growth. you can see that the price has pumped up but the fees in the blockchain are terribly expensive. this is not good
It looks like you are missing something from the latest development progress of ethereum, right? as far as i know people are still hyping the ethereum 2.0 update and the bullish trend that was happening with bitcoin doesn't give a lot of impact to the ethereum. I think that if you were missing that news.