It's private and you can hold it yourself. Fees are cheap. Blocks are fast. And now it has more expressive smart contracts. You only need trust liquid federation and the trust model makes it so that it would be extraordinarily unlikely for a majority of the federation to collude to steal funds. 12 out of 15 functionaries must agree and sign each block. The functionaries are overseen by the federation members which there are a ton of now. That's all overseen by full nodes verifying everything that you can run yourself.