Investors or lenders don't fear the volatility. What they fear most is the security of the platform where they have invested their money.
Someone who invests in defi or lending platform understands the volatility of cryptocurrencies as from the beginning it has always been. But whether there will be a help or none from any other projects, Ethereum won't surpass bitcoin.
It will remain as the number one crypto.
Bitcoin will remain digital gold, and Ethereum is the digital oil that fuels the development of new decentralized financial technologies, and time will tell who will be more valuable in the future.