I see Eternl wallet is belongs to a third party, it safe to hold ada and other coin ?
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Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: As safe as you can be in crypto. The team developing Eternl is well-known in Cardano.
There is not really something like a “third party”. Cardano is a network, a community, and the difference between IOG and Emurgo building tools for that community and Tastenkunst building a tool for that community is not that material. The founding companies are not inherently more trustworthy than other companies operating on Cardano.
The providers of wallet apps – at least non-custodial ones which are almost all that matter – have no control over your assets. They just provide a tool for you to manage your assets yourself. You hold the seed phrase, the keys to your wallet and you can switch the tool to manage that wallet more or less freely. (Sometimes there are some small incompatibilities.)
With all wallet apps – irrespective if they come from the founding companies or from a “third party” – you have to be careful to get the legitimate one. There are fakes of all of them from time to time. Following links from https://cardano.org/what-is-ada/#wallets, https://developers.cardano.org/showcase/?tags=wallet, and/or https://cardano-community.github.io/support-faq/Wallets/list/ helps being sure that you get to the legitimate website and from there to the legitimate download.
Also, beware of scammers impersonating support. They are everywhere – X, Telegram, Discord, … – and also with all wallet apps. Founding entities are really not better at getting rid of them than third party wallet app providers – and often they have no possibility to be. Nobody can prevent people from copying profile pictures and sending direct messages. And the wallet app providers cannot ban people from the whole network, just from their space inside.
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And lastly, beware of the practice of collecting “Free Tokens”. If you haven’t worked for it, it cannot be your money.