I doubt it will go even near to Neo etherum is far away to reach, They have made hype before ICO Godfather of Etherum after ICO lots of Issue with Management, Full development structure change, Promised to mine on Mobile for mass market adoption everything changed.
this coin could surpass ethereum
You got that wrong. Mobile phone mining is for a more decentralized network (and it is still happening). This combined with John Tromp's Cuckoo Cycle algo should prevent the network from being held hostage by mining cartels and the like. Mass adoption is driven by web browser integration, a mobile first approach and a bunch of æapps at mainnet launch or soon after.
Check out the team page. Aeternity have recently hired some absolute guns and have been making massive progress in a short amount of time.
I can see AE being in the top 10 by 4th quarter 2018 #Moon-Soon
I saw that. They hired around 10 new Erlang developers? I'm just looking at their pictures and age, these guys are not to be fucked with. They looked experienced and hardened in code as fuck. Good stuff going on here.