There's little reason it would be related.. yet.
The market is affected by people holding more than they put on the market.. see the biggest market depth is quite thin so jump back and forward https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_xcp
If you understand Counterparty's potential, then take the opportunity where it drops or just plough ahead at any price if you consider that the price is too lite for what it'll be in the future.
Playing the markets is like playing blackjack.. you're going to lose. The real winning follow from holding good prospects to the point they deliver utility. Ethereum is a mess right now and the split hasn't helped evidence ability to remain stable long term.. one of two options could fall quickly or they could both do ok.. too much uncertainty but ridiculous potential from those well positioned to adopt that capability that does work well.
The best thing about the competition, almost all of them use CMC's api's. This is legit fact I found this out when I was trying to find other coin trackers to support Counterparty. Basically, I would click on Bitcoin and get the link for it and change it to NVST where it says BTC. Then if it returns a result with a non updated or non active price they use CMC's API. The only one I have been 100% able to confirm that does not use CMC's API is https://www.cryptocompare.com/ but they do not currently Support xcp Dex and want $1,500 to lost an exchange and $2,000 for them to ad a coin
Good question... try this one https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/ and sort on CounterParty, select an asset, click the available markets and then if its traded on let's say poloniex, go there and have a look.
QR-code authorization can now be tested with a new update of Freewallet for Android users, still waiting on the iOS update to be pushed.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.freewallet.mobile