I wonder how ripple will grow in 2018
I'm convinced that Ripple (and XRP) will be huge. It is a question of when. 2018 is certainly possible. Ripple is a very different project to everything else in crypto, but its potential is vast. When you look at the problem they are trying to solve, and the solution they have developed, you've just got to be impressed. For a long time it has been clear that Ripple the company will be hugely successful, but there was less certainty about this being reflected in XRP price. However Ripple have really made XRP the focus this year, and for any bank that adopts the tech, XRP adoption is the logical next step as this introduces another level of cost savings.
I know there are a lot of doubters, and I understand this from an ideological perspective, as Ripple isn't really true crypto. But I don't understand it when people say that Ripple won't be huge - just look at what they are doing!