Ripple sounds like a good idea, the technology behind it is solid. However the only thing that has made me weary of investing is the amount of coins the creators still hold. Ripple was pre-mined and the creators have only release a portion of the coins. They still hold over 50% of the coins in existence, maybe 60%

This means that 50% of XRP's market cap ($9,853,675,986) isn't in circulation, if it wasn't being held and was in circulation you could expect the price to approximately half. The reason they're holding onto so much is because they don't want the price to fall, they release a certain amount of coins each year to drip feed the supply and artificially inflate the price.

Risky investment but it has good use cases and Asian banks are backing it so I'm not really sure.