Ethereum and ripple - occupy the second and third place in the table CoinMarketCap, sometimes replace each other in second place in terms of capitalization. True, ethereum is now confidently ahead of ripple in terms of capitalization by more than ten billion dollars.
However, in terms of functionality, these are completely different coins that do not directly compete with each other. However, of these two coins, I like ethereum more. Yes, and we are constantly working with ERC-20 tokens, which are released on the ethereum platform and transaction fees for their transfer are paid to ethereum.