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I started reading about COMIT¹ and noticed an interesting quote: This prediction was made in 2015. So, just for fun, let's extrapolate a little. Right now the GWP (Gross World Product) is at $74T in nominal terms² and it's grown by 4% a year for the past 10 years.³ So, looking 10 years into the future at 4% growth per year, we arrive at $74T * (1.04^10) = $110T. All cryptocurrencies are now worth more than $100B.⁴ At the time of writing, XRP is worth ~$0.27 per coin, or $27B in total if you count all 100B coins. If you count only the 38B coins in circulation right now, that gives it roughly a $10B market cap. So, let's call it 10% of the total crypto market. Assuming the market cap of each coin stays exactly where it is relative to the total cap (i.e. the rising tide raises all boats equally), and we see the total cap grow to be 10% of the GWP as the WEF predicts... That means the total crypto market will be worth $110T * 10% = $11T. If XRP is still 10% of the market, that gives each coin a valuation of ($11T * 0.1) / 100B = $11 (assuming by that point all 100B coins will be out of escrow and circulating). This doesn't account for any growth relative to other cryptocurrencies. Thoughts? Sources: 1: http://www.comit.network/doc/COMIT white paper v1.0.2.pdf 2: http://www.economywatch.com/economic-statistics/year/2016/ 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product 4: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/with-bitcoin-surge-cryptocurrencies-top-100-billion-in-market-capitalization-2017-06-06

Sharing my findings as I couldn't find them all at xrpchat. There is some good stuff happening (in my opinion) regarding the progress towards real blockchain adoption in general (which I assume is profitable for XRP usecase adoption too). First let's again view what a survey by WEF World Economic Forum with "over 800 executives and experts from the information and communications technology sector" says: From Ripple insight: Original PDF by WEF Ripple Insight regarding this survey Of course this is an averaged estamation based on the responses and the survey was done in 2015. Stuff already seems progressing quicker than expected (incl for Ripple). It shows the expectations the respondents in the ICT sector have. Blockchain ISO standards developments There are ISO standards being developed for "blockchain and distributed ledger technologies". Such standards are necessary (imo) for real worldwide adoption. Currently the stages of those ISO standards are 'Preparatory' (stage 20.00) at most. Here is an overview of participating and observing countries: https://www.iso.org/committee/6266604.html?view=participation This standard is an initiative by Australia. From the roadmap for blockchain standards of Standards Australia (march 2017): Small overview of roadmap here. So even though the current status is 'Preparatory' at most, the ISO standards ARE being developed at this moment. Boiling fintech in Luxembourg; Infrachain From website: Q1 2018 introduction paper Now lets view Infrachains members page: This shows that big players in the industry like Ant Financial are actively busy progressing to realworld usage / adoption. Also interesting Ant Financial is active in Luxembourg it seems. Talking about Ant Financial, their brand Alipay has some plans. Exciting blockchain/fintech times ahead imo. For speculation; Snapswap, KPMG, Telindus, Deloitte have some connections to Ripple. SnapSwap USA (a Ripple gateway) stopped but the key executive was Denis Kiselev, which is still active at SnapSwap International S.A. in Luxembourg. KPMG slide mentioned Mastercard tested Ripple payments blockchain solution (just noticed the slide author is Unilever, big Dutch company that had 52.7 billion euro turnover in 2016) Telindus has a Ripple validator running Deloitte (37.8 billion usd turnover) senior manager for innovations talking Ripple here and here. Maybe he is in the community somewhere. Also in Japan the selfregulated Japanese Cryptocurrency Exchange Association was created which fits above progress (ISO standards under development / Infrachain trying to accelerate blockchain adoption by community created regulation). Good to see these initiatives which should help accelerate blockchain and/or crypto use by setting standards & guidelines at a moment there is still some regulatory unclarity.

http://fortune.com/2018/01/30/bitcoin-cryptocurrency-blockchain-technology-price-falling-crashing/ An article based on Discussions from Davos and the World Economic Forum indicates a Crypto split into two tribes the "Monetary Renegades" (bitcoin backers) and "Transaction Settlers" what I think Ripple represents. The author thinks the "Settlers" are gaining the upper hand.

I know this is old but it got my attention when Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen was mentioned as contributing subject matter experts on WEF http://www3.weforum.org/docs/Beyond_Fintech_-_A_Pragmatic_Assessment_of_Disruptive_Potential_in_Financial_Services.pdf?utm_content=buffer03356&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/09/banks-are-finally-starting-to-adopt-cryptocurrencies