Pump on USDT exch failed to incite buyimg from fiat gateway exch, if BTC pump, alt will be squeezed, I think market maker will try to get a way to influence market with other means than BTC, they tried with ETH on January but failed due to ICO dumping, Next trial may be NANO.
No significant news in near time, probab;y they will resort tp hack when sideways becomes unbearable (remember the side ways at 11k several days ago)