I don't own any XRP myself and i also don't plan to buy any XRP in the future i am not an IT or even crypto expert but even i know that XRP stands for everything that crypto wanted to change in the first place: centralization and that governments and federal banks have the control over the wealth of ordinary people. To the question why XRP is up 15% in the last week, i think the answer to that is pretty obvious. First of all the traditional stock market is also recovering at the moment because of the news that the whole interest topic is slowing down. When the traditional stock markets grow the crypto market as a whole grows also and therefore almost every crypto project.