Riak will recover in the near future, rest assured that Ripple will not just give up. Ripple is a good and trustworthy coin, so we don't need to worry about Ripple anymore. Of course it will return to normal again
I doubt if anything could ever happen to Ripple considering the fact that inspire of Ethereum price surge and volume increase in this past few days, Ripple has continued to maintain the second position on the coinmarket cap.