Could be but I don't think so. We have seen increased transactions around summertime before, imo it's people buying stuff to use during summer vacation.
There's also the fact that more and more xmr transactions move away from binance-like-CEX to instant swappers. Oh and of course, the binance delisting was officially concluded 2 days ago and it was the last chance for people to withdraw their coins.
This is an interesting proposal. From what I have heard, core doesn't do all that much these days besides getting blamed when something goes wrong. Splitting up their responsibilities and decentralizing them sounds like a good option for Moneros future.
for FOSS: https://github.com/voicepaw/so-vits-svc-fork alternatively https://elevenlabs.io/