2018 is going to be a good year for privacy coins, with more regulation coming in, more money will shift into the privacy realm, verge is well placed to benefit from this, I don't see why it wont become the dominant privacy coin.
Well mostly because
Monero Dash is currently dominating the privacy alt-coin markets. I don't think Verge will reach
Monero's Dash's prices any time soon. Maybe in a decade or two they might have a chance. Ofcourse, this doesn't mean buying Verge wouldn't be a good investment, that it is. It's still cheap, and is more likely to get bigger gain% than other privacy cryptos. With the current prices though, Verge would need almost
450 000% 1M% gain to reach
Monero Dash. This is, if
Monero Dash would stay still.
Again, don't get me wrong, I do believe Verge will have a great year, and many investors will be happy with the results. I'm currently holding a "shit ton" of verge since early 2017, and at least I am happy.
Edit: My mistake, replace Monero with Dash I guess. Updated the required gain% to reflect Dash instead of Monero.