Yes, curecoin also did the same thing like folding coin did. And I also heard about BOINC projects but I did not know it is under GridCoin.
Actually I think CureCoin was the first crypto to reward Folding@home contributors.
FoldingCoin was released a little bit later.
But thanks to merge folding, folding can compete with mining in terms of profit and that's great for F@h!