Ripple has been a master of this pump and dump misleading news for an incredibly long time. Should had seen their PDFs, from years ago, claiming that by now they would have been in every bank - blah blah blah. Or that time where they claimed they were working with "big banks" but it was actually only Fidor and Fidor was primarily only interested in BTC and stopped working with Ripple and instead partnered with Krakken.
Especially with that new washed out career-dead Yahoo executive on the Ripple Staff, working there must be an incredibly toxic environment.
Anyway we're talking about a company that's older than BTC, Ripple was founded in 2004, and it hasn't gone anywhere in all that time. Ripple is just an investors' trap, imho. Success of the ancient Ripple swindling investors also persuaded other vaporware companies to go into crypto, such as Maidsafe (less than 5 employees) from 2006 which was recycling code from open source projects in the 1990s, received many millions of millions over the years and hasn't turned out a single product yet and yet the money has "disappeared"
No wonder people don't want to get into cryptocurrency, it's a mos eisley cantina full of scammers, crooks and fraudsters and it attracts new ones all the time.