It seems buggy insecure blockchain platforms get a lot of funding. Why put funding into something which hackers can take control over? I understand with TheDAO because TheDAO was the first trial and first attempt at it but then you have something as old as Ripple? Ripple has no excuse because it's been around as long as Bitcoin if not longer yet isn't secure? It's never going to be secure if it's not secure by 2017.
ETH is just too new. It might someday become secure enough to do something with but it's a very new platform with an entirely new language and in the opinion of some security researchers has a reckless design.