Vechain testnet is hitting an all-time high for transactions. That is RealItems is onboarding their infrastructure onto VET. It will probably onboard to the mainnet after the testnet and we will see a spike in transactions there for a few days but it probably will not be sustained.
Ripple, in its quarterly report, has said it paid moneygram $16.6m dollars in XRP, which was immediately dumped, to use ODL and help support the costs of using the system.