I have also seen it, but that doesn't make it more true... if this confirms, it might boost the price a bit as it will bring much needed improvements on the network and will keep faithfull to the roadmap... this would show dev activity and mainly evolution
the hard fork will surely impact the price, as almost any hard fork does... last time it was a bomb of 1400$, let's hope this time will at least bring eth back to normal levels...