whether true or not but many speculate that the increase in the price of XRP was driven by the increase in the price of BTC itself, then there was news that XRP launched an airdrop on its platform. this drew the market sensation back. The competition for crypto is getting tougher and each new or old project starts launching another new breakthrough.
it is hard to guess xrp because it always does things out of the ordinary but hopefully in the future, like what you said, there are improvements from xrp to be able to keep moving to improve and the management is always active with new innovations.
I believe that yesterday's increase was due to the encouragement of bitcoin not from positive activities carried out by xrp alone.
xrp is a good token but sometimes it always makes uncontrollable actions that make the price go down.