Ethereum don't need help from a project to become the number one cryptocurrency today, right from day one Ethereum have been doing what it was meant to do, it's the king of all altcoins and smart contract Platforms, ethereum is too strong and that's why many new smart contract projects can't over thrown ethereum today.
It has not always done what it was supposed to do, though,,, in fact from early on already the DAO concept did not work out, causing the split. And the very reason it is going to ETH 2.0 is because the original model proved that world supercomputer does not work as a concept without staking and sharding. Still,,, it is going in a right direction that cannot be denied!