Ripple the company has always been clear about the
Post# of 997
For this all to be possible, they need to have their Ripplenet used by as many banks and FIs as possible, they need many nodes and validators, and finally they need many Market Makers, exchanges, and broker dealers to increase liquidity.
If you have been following their updates, blogs, articles, and quarterly reports, you will see they are executing on every level.
This is not a penny stock pump and dump scenario. This is going to be the future. Sure, many will sell and take profits, but the legendary people that HODLed (hold on for dear life) Bitcoin and got crazy rich didn't do so by dumping. Those that dumped actually lost out huge. So the culture in crypto is to HODL.
The risk here is that banks and FIs never adopt XRP. However, they don't have to because of xRapid. They don't have to hold XRP to use it. Anybody can build a better payment system, of which Ripplenet is one of the greats, but no one can SETTLE in real time without XRP. Understanding this difference will either make us rich, or richer.