The crypto market has been suffering a decline since the last quarter of 2018 , Ethereum is down by around 93% since its all-time rate, sinking to a 17-month low. The biggest failure that Ethereum faced is probably going down the ranking in terms of market cap.
2019 looks bright for Ethereum as HTC Blockchain Phone Exodus 1(which is only accepting Bitcoin and Ethereum) has already been launched in advance on December 12, 2018, and is ready for purchase.
Even Ethereum is expected to experience their Constantinople hard fork in January 2019, wherein the block times would start to increase, and by May 2019 the difficulty bomb is expected to reach 30-second block times.
This might be one of the biggest achievements ETH has had, hence it might go high above the ladder in 2019.
*With the market being so volatile and the sudden downfall of ether, predicting the price of the cryptocurrencies is not an easy task.