No usage for eth?? It has the most amount of active developers, it's the leader in smart contracts platforms, its poised to lead decentralized finance. Have you heard of nightfall? Many blockchains are being built on , its market effect and network is huge. Please tell me how xrp can compare? Not ripple , xrp. Because xrp hodlers seem to confuse the two alot.... Banks might use ripple software but have no need or demand for the token. The fact that it is 3rd place despite very little usage and constant dumping is remarkable. Banks will adapt and make their own coin and swift will adapt and nullify any need for xrp.
The gap between the two coins is quite wide, and it will be most impossible for ripple to ever meet up with Ethereum, not now and not in the future. Ripple claims that they have real use case and that is why they are occupying the 3rd place but I see no real use case for them other than people that has been deceived of expecting their price to go to $4 holding the coin and hoping to have some great profit from the coin.
Ethereum is a great coin but it is no longer a saint too anymore because I am being disappointed about their own operation, they might have had real use case in the past but this is gradually dyeing downs, people are now Moving to other reliable chains like that of Binance, EOS and also Tron are beginning to gradually take over.