I was very surprised and confused when Ethereum fell to third place. I could not expect that Ripple, which is centralized currency could beat it (OK, temporary, but we saw it). Hope, nothing like this will happen.
This is not surprising, since ethereum develops under its own power thanks to a professional team, and the ripples have repeatedly been noticed in certain manipulations that led to an artificial increase in price. Many analysts have argued that practically the majority of the investor consists of the developers themselves and therefore it was easy for them to conduct such a satellite climax on the cryptocurrency market.