u/mtheory3

Is there any incentive for institutions to hold large amounts of XRP besides gas fees? Suppose a company wants to do $10 billion in transactions a day via RLUSD, as things stand, they'd only need to hold a few XRP to cover the gas fees since 1 XRP is needed for every 100,000 unique transactions. Is there an incentive to hold mass amounts of XRP like in liquidity pools?

XRP is my largest holding so I genuinely want to believe in it, but I'm starting to believe that Ripple will be very successful while the investors in XRP may not be.

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I have yet to see a satisfying explanation for why we'd expect XRP to increase in price beyond people just buying it because they hear about the amazing things Ripple is doing on the news.

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Here are the headwinds I see:

- The gas fees are so low that even massive volume on the chain would burn very little. It would take literally 100,000 transactions to burn 1 XRP, so companies wouldn't need to hold more than a few XRP at a time.

- Even if Ripple is relocking most of the unlocked tokens, much more are being sold on the market than are burned via gas

- Ripple doesn't seem interested in buying back XRP to make it's price go up in the future

- RLUSD is what any company would choose to use because the prices don't fluctuate like XRP. No company wants to gamble transactions settling at a slightly different price.

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Please explain to me why I'm wrong and why we'll see XRP go up to say $5-$10 by 2030. I feel like I'm missing a huge part of what makes XRP valuable to hold on to