There might be no popular dapp, however, it does not change the argument that creating a dapp and smart contracts in Ripple's new XRPL is very much possible.
Also, very much similar to my very wrong prediction on Tether, XRP will not bye bye for good. I predict that XRP will continue to exist for many more years. We might witness a higher price on XRP and we will return in this thread again to larp about XRP's doomage heheheheheheee.
Only time will tell us what will happen with XRP. No one can predict the future. Especially with how strange and bizarre crypto land is. Ripple is a company. It depends on the regulators to survive. The XRP Ledger is tied to such company, so if one day Ripple goes bankrupt or gets seized by the government, it will be "bye-bye" to XRP for good. Assuming it stays centralized. If it becomes truly-decentralized, there's a high probability it will last a lifetime.
Stellar (XLM) also has smart contracts, but it hasn't gained traction yet. Investors prefer giants such as Ethereum and Solana for "decentralized" applications. We'll see how far will XRP go in market price. Anything's possible, right?
