Icos will not start to use ripple during ico or etc mate. Whales pumping ripple because they want from you to think something like that. Why are you using your hopes about eth or btc.
What will ripple gives to cryptocurrency space. Nothing . That is centralised coin and whales pumping it in hard times. I am sure they will dump it also in the future. Maybe cz can add to ripple. I dont have any problem with that because ripple also have huge marketcap. But i dont believe ripple's future.