I think ethereum is gaining more acceptance among business and that is why we are seeing many icos using it to raise funds from the public. We should not undermined the significant of this in cryptocurrencies development because a particular coins must be adopted for a particular purposes and that is what I see with ethereum and fund raising.
I read somewhere that the creator of the ethereum will be leaving that ethereum soon because he afraid that the ethereum will come to end soon so why he was doing that if he thinks ethereum will be the future of crypto currencies.