Things to look out for in 2018:

Coinbase- When we had multiple rumors of XRP being added I believed it back in March. I would have thought they would have added it by now as it would benefit them on volume. We will have to just wait and see, at the moment I’m not really concerned if they add it or not. Probably a good thing for me and others who are still trying to accumulate.

Western Union & Moneygram- We will have to wait and see later this year on an Xrapid implementation. I’m confident that the tests will go smoothly. I remember when Brad was talking about the top three money transfer companies he mentioned the fact that they were planning to incorporate Xrapid later this year. With Ripple Tech taking about 4-6 months to incorporate into financial institutions systems, I’m guessing we will have news towards the end of 2018.

Apple, Google, etc.- We might see a huge partnership with large tech giants getting into blockchain. Apple and Google are good contenders with the Apple connection involving the ILP and Google an investor in Ripple the company. Non-tech companies as well like Starbucks who plan to implement crypto-currencies into payment options (XRP cheapest and fastest).

New and old partners- Definitely looking forward to a large number of partners this year, even if it’s just for Xcurrent. Also to see old partners decide to upgrade to Xrapid for cross borders.

New use cases- Ripple should be announcing new use cases for XRP as not too long ago a Ripple employee did talk about Ripple looking into it. New use cases for XRP is very exciting to me at least. XRP will already change the cross borders industry which that alone is a homerun, but if they find another problem/solution that can be fixed with XRP to the same scale would create an insane price potential.