- Technology : Main dev has thought of, tried and suceeded in a few points where nobody charted before. As far as my tests go it really is faster than ripple. Being the fastest in such a nerdy ecosystem is a huge plus in everyone's eyes. Developer claims it is so advanced for its time that it has potential to become a main background technology like "http" for cryptocurrencies. As it is both instant and free, it has potential to end the "transfer of value" problem and become the norm. It's speed is currently limited by hardware (chips and bandwidth), not by design.

- Exchange Exposure : It is being sold only on 2 exchanges and a telegram bot. One of the exchanges have recently been hacked and untrustable. Other is a very small exchange with little daily BTC volume. Also a bot trades doge for XRB at small amounts on telegram but these are not like a real sale at all, it is like you have to do long operations to buy at the moment so no real capital went through these yet to buy. Also exchanges disallow any announcements before they add a coin, and XRB dev and community has been applying all exchanges like mad the last week, I feel at least 1-3 exchanges added in the next 2 weeks.

- Github and main dev very active, 6 coders, 12 ppl total working on it. Translations are out. Devs working with universities with code-review and optimization.