Yes for a long time xrp is competing with ethereum. And at one pint it take the 2nd place of ethereum for some days according to market cap. But again ethereum is back to number 2 and xrp is a little bit under cap. The main reason behind this swap was that the ethereum was falling that Time and xrp is gaining. For ethereum the the ico market is down the they got many problems on chains lik end scalability issues and all. And got xrp they do some conference and all and they do some partnership so they got pumped. This is the main reason.