Ripple has some similarities with bitcoin but nonetheless gets rid of many non-features in the expense of decentralization. It doesn't hold users to the same level of trustlessness against the network but its adoption is rampant. The recent spike in Ripple's price made it surpass ETH for good and now has bitcoin's market cap lower than 50% among altcoin market capitalizations collectively. Will Ripple continue dominating cryptocurrency?
Yes it will, #1, soon.
To be perfectly honest, I don't think that this is going to happen soon. Unlike Bitcoin, Ripple is the kind of alt that can -in practice- benefit greatly from widespread adoption. But adoption by banks and institutions isn't going to happen form one day to another. For Ripple to actually surpass bitcoin, it'd need to keep rising stably for a long period of time and receive much more adoption to support such a thing.
