I have made a post before about this, I will say that in my opinion a crypto-currency called Origin and would be called Ampera can have a bright future. This is aided by the fact that it has garnered a large community (despite of them being dormant as of late) while just being in BETA phase, which it is still, in fact its reached the major popularity when it did not make pool mining even possible yet.
Moreover aims into uniting currencies together with origin being the middle man more in that in my post talking about it. so it is not following directly in the foot steps of the rivals and offers something new. As a result i believe that it can get a bright future, provided that everything goes well for them.