The XRPL can be used to host a number of projects. It can be used for micropayments across the globe, you can pair it with other tokens or make a stablecoin on the XRPL for exchange, or it could be used to facilitate the exchange of NFTs.
Micropayments
Cryptocurrency Wallets
Exchanges
Stablecoins
DeFi
Central Bank Digital Currencies
NFTs
Banking services seem modern, but their core model for settlement is slow and involves unnecessary systemic risk. Without synchronized databases, the ledgers take time to settle because they must be independently verified by a trusted 3rd party (a clearing house) between both ledgers.
Witness the ledger live: https://livenet.xrpl.org/
Explore the XRP ledger here: https://xrpcharts.ripple.com/#/graph
Banks required to use their capital (Billions of Dollars) to pre-fund accounts around the world to make transactions seem "instant".
These pre-funded accounts provide "liquidity", as funds are needed on both ends.
Planes fly with pallets of dollars to move funds around the world for accountability.
Banks link with exchanges and crowd source liquidity from XRP holders around the world in their local currencies
Banks can repurpose their capital for other business ventures instead of it needing to sit in accounts for remittances.
Believe it or not, in the early days of the internet emails couldn't be sent across domain until SMTP was adopted.
As long as the assets tokenized are interoperable with the XRP ledger protocol, they can be exchanged between each other like email; but for payments.