I dont think that NEO has a future, it pumped hard because it was tottaly involved in China ICO market. With sch kind of a news where ICOs are forbidden, NEO can start aiming to another markets, but can it compete with ETH? Probably not.
ETH and NEO (and others) are in exactly the same spot aren't they? Chinese ICOs can't be started on their platform. Or someone correct me? If an ICO from Japan wants to use NEO the Chinese are going to do what (other than banning their cituzens)?
The NEO team is in China... but so what? I guess if things got really bad they could be arrested... they could also leave the country and go somewhere else.