The team is very professionnal, there never have been leaks. Dev team won't leak and warn you before a X2 in price !
Look at Medici or Ethereum news, it was sudden, each time with the price X2.
Like many of us, I sold a few XCP @ 0.005 because of no news for weeks...
The growth is steady. There already should have been a drop in price if you use basic technical trading, so it is very likely that other big news are coming and/or demand from insider devs or Patrick Byrne's friends is very superior to offers.
If you look closely (maybe the posts were deleted) PP or Xnova were talking about some good news in the coming weeks. That was after the medici announce.
On the github you can follow development and see what are the future improvements. Since XCP team has always delivered, it's more a "when" than an "if". Ofc, the ethereum clone was a surprise (a good one) and who knows, there may be other good surprises along the way.
The thing is, you can see that the development has gained some momentum. On reddit, when the crowd was shouting "not on my blockchain" 10 month ago, they've now a lot of respect for PP and xnova posts.