I think Ethereum is in an okay position going into 2018, with or without a BTC crash. Here are a few favorable circumstances that ETH has:
Cryptokitties (and Proving ETH's Fundamentals)
Cryptokitties simply had an astounding dispatch. It is the main viral Dapp, winding up so prominent that it really has been stopping up the system. This is something other than a stupid application, it's the stage with a genuine utilize case has been broadly utilized as a part of the group.
Also, how did the market react to this? The cost when sideways (and really diminished marginally in esteem).
This has occurred some time recently. At the point when Coinbase chose to add Ethereum to their stage, the costs was ostensibly influenced notwithstanding being a standout amongst the most essential esteem drivers for the digital currency. It took a half year before the digital currency began to take off.
Cryptokitties recently demonstrated that the system has esteem, something individuals will spend their ETH on. The basics are great, yet the cost doesn't mirror that today. In any case, that doesn't imply that the esteem won't be influenced later on.
Recorded Re-pegging
After the cost of Bitcoin takes off and afterward settles, the cost of different alt-coins will get 're-pegged' to BTC at another rate, frequently with an ascent to it's USD esteem. Keep in mind, countless view the 'genuine' estimation of ETH by it's BTC matching, and will exchange based off this.
So once BTC turns out to be more steady, the market will go one by one through the diverse cryptographic forms of money and think that its new position in the market. Verifiably, this has for the most part brought about a positive hop in the cost of ETH.
Position As The Second Biggest Cryptocurrency
The past situation expected that the cost of BTC stays stable. Imagine a scenario in which BTC diminishes in cost. From one viewpoint, Bitcoin could tank and take the whole market with it (this has occurred some time recently).
In any case, another situation that is conceivable is that individuals hoping to abstain from losing assets will locate another place to stop their digital money to ride out the crash. Tokens like Ethereum and Litecoin have been places that have emphatically profit by BTC value droops. Since ETH is anything but difficult to change into from essential trades like Coinbase, it makes it an extraordinary contender to be viewed as an 'asylum' cryptographic money.
Along these lines, I think Ethereum is in a decent position. Be that as it may, forecasts deceive all of us, and we might be ideal around the bend from the colossal rectification.
Disclaimer: I am put resources into ETH and this may all be impractical reasoning. Do your due steadiness before making any speculation.