Data from CoinMarketCap shows that Ripple's market capitalisation is at $106 billion

Ripple has now pulled away from Ethereum and is looking like a real threat to the Bitcoin throne.

This comes after Ripple surged in the final week of December and overtook Ethereum as the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap. Now, it's taken the next step in the "flippening" saga.

Is Ripple going to be the next big thing in 2018?