Ethereum is making some surprises move and it has over take ripple again in terms of market capitalization. It is also good for ethereum hodl as the downward trend seems to affect ethereum more than any other coins in the market. Ethereum was having a very large market capitalization before and it has never been competition with ripple throughout 2017 were we have great bullish trend but since last year it started to compete with ripple. It is currently around $121 and has made +2% today.
I think this surprise comes from price speculation about Hardfork later. but if there are more delays, I think ethereum will never come out of the downtrend. predictably during this month there will be a tight competition with ripple because many try to pump ethereum prices to hardfork later.
Supporters believed that the hardfork will bring more interest to their project, trying to show that they've got the numbers ETH achieved regained it's position the question is how long it will take or how holders will keep trusting the project and wait for the best results, it will revealed after the fork happen if there's continue gaining the spot or it will be overtaken once more.