Thanks for your question. Waves for various reasons :-)
It is one of the projects that actually has a good working product and they do what they say they do. Sasha is a knowledgeable guy, understands real world challenges and not only the technical ones and he is Russian, which somes in handy when you want to tackle real world challenges like crypto legislation (i.e. now legal and fully compliant ICOs on top of Waves through Tokenomica).
An interesting talk by Sasha @ Genesis Moscow a few months ago that gives you more context:
The main reasons for me to include Ripple is its relative low correlation to the others, great tech that actually is used by a lot of banks, very professional team and clear use case (getting down those transaction costs in the financial world).
Hope I made it all a bit more clear this way!
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