People have been waiting for the ethereum ipo for months, this is probably just the beginning. I personally am staying staying from it. Too much wishiwashiness and way to complicated for me.
i am personally invested in both, they offer their differences, and ethereum when released will give the ability to attach smart contracts directly related to Xcurrency business. Every single crypto currency for that matter. would also be completely possible to have enough smart contracts to accept every single crypto currency but have it automatically converted into BTC , so the merchant doesn't ever need to deal with the alts they accepted. Now while this is useless to XC which is big and strong enough to be making a name for itself, it does add extra utility to every single crypto out now and tradable