I am sure with so much happening around ripple and xrp the time is not far when xrp haters, critics and sellers will regret because xrp will emerge as the strongest coin with real world utilities.
I don't even think ripple coin will have a real world utilities as it didn't give any utility to the holders. You can see mostly the ripple holders were getting their profit from the capital gain and it's not coming from the utility that owned by the ripple.
the latest partnership by ripple has proven that ripple is working to provide an infrastructure for the institutional rather than focusing to develop the utility for the its token and platform.
More partnership means the ripple ecosystem will become even bigger than before.