I think a big part of the hype we see lately is due to the corona vaccine being finally around and mass produced. A lot of countries already use the vaccine. There is finally light at the end of the pandemic.
This is not true imo. The year has been good for Bitcoin and Ethereum even despite the pandemic, only traditional institutions were affected by covid-19 pandemic and should be glad that vaccines are on it's way, but as with Bitcoin and Eth, they both weathered the storm of the pandemic and have been on a strategic rise from th beginning of the year, down to this point were Bitcoin has crossed the atm and ethereum would possibly surpass it's own ath by next year.