Obviously, a lot had happened since the OP has posted this one. He/She enumerate a lot of positive news, but the market didn't move until after April Fools when some big entity suddenly pour a lot of cash in millions and move the price +$1000. It only means that there is still manipulation and it will be part of the ecosystem no matter we like it or not. Of course positive news will do good, but it there's no one who is willing to ride the news that the market will not felt the effect.
What really made many of us really conclude that the spike on the 1st of April was that of manipulation, what if it was just a coincidence and we really got a genuine investor that simply decided to store up his or her fund in cryptocurrency as saving for the future.
We really don't know what his/her intention of pouring lots of money in the market. One thing's for sure, he/she did a good job and the timing.
We should not fail to remember that $1000 didn’t just suddenly add to the value, the spike was fast but FOMO was what made the price speed up more, as we have many investors thinking the bull run had come and started investing more which I also did. So, it is not every time I see a big increase that I see as manipulation.
A sudden spike like we've seen will really bring more FOMO in the market, just like we have witnessed. The price seems to go as high as $5300 so definitely, investors or speculators jump on the bandwagon again. Manipulation in a positive way, is what that big entity did to the market last April 2.