The only way you would merge them is to have an extra layer that will see them simmilar to how tokens on ethereum work with one databse. Although this is far ahead and I am not sure if something like this will ever be created. You wouldn't have one coin, never. There could be few of them such as bitcoin, ethereum that the massees will use mostly but others will exist as well. As I am reading things such as that tommorow everything will be tokenazied like your house could have it's tokens that represent it digitally and you could sell parts of owenerhsip or something I dubt that we are going to use only one.
Look at the world today we have many currencies and variaty is good in one sense as you can't stop people from creating their own version of crypto and using it between them.