Yeah as I said in another thread their pump and dump is not working, the pumpers are actually losing money.
They've resorted to scamming coinmarketcap. You can see by traded volume declining everyday most of the new coins they are saying are being released are not. They just keep telling CMC they released more coins though to keep their CAP looking like it's going up.
So even though the price & volume is going down if they can convince coinmarketcap that more coins are being put into circulation then they will at least look like their CAP is rising.
Also the new crushed airdrop and convoluted invitation & demographic/geographic nonsense is just designed to make it as hard as possible for you to tell where the new stellar is going. The illusion of fairness & the illusion of market cap all in one.