I think that the road is still long to consolidate second position.
The are a lot happening and it's important not to make mistake.
Yesterday the gap between the second and third place was about $ 3 billion, in favor of ethereum. I think that at the end of February we will see an even more favorable position of the ethereum after the renewal of Constantinople.
The second place of Ethereum is a natural state of Affairs, soon it is obliged to show its strength relative to all other altcoins and remove the question of the second-strongest coin for a long time