Good things about to come for Ripple. Some notes below :
1. Ripple began its partnership with the Hyperledger Consortium on 28th March 2018.This partnership would not only boost Ripples price considerably but also accelerate the developmental process of blockchain application.
2. The Implementation of the Cobalt Algorithm:: The Cobalt algorithm would mitigate the time for a cross-border transaction to nearly 1 second. Previously, Ripples cross-border transactions used to take three to four seconds. Therefore, this new implementation would increase Ripples speed by nearly 75% which means the number of overall transactions would also increase accordingly. With such a gargantuan boost in a daily transaction, Ripples popularity to the traders is very likely to escalate further.