The performance of the XRP altcoin so far, and the expectations that it will continue to ris,e are some big drivers of its value. However, there are also the very real-world use cases for the altcoin, which was designed to play in trillion-dollar markets and help streamline global transactions.
By holding XRP, the crypto investors believe that it is holding “the hard ledger of the payment economy.” He further adds that “Best case? Adoption explodes, banks consolidate on RippleNet, or regulators bless it, turning early XRP into a collectible, tradable relic of the crypto revolution.”