Ethereum
ETH
Decentralized smart-contract platform and open-source blockchain
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| 1h | 24h | 7d | 30d | 60d | 90d |
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| 0.51% | 0.26% | 0.66% | 9.04% | 10.54% | 15.97% |
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Open Markets
| # | Exchange | Pair | Price | +2% depth | -2% depth | Volume (24h) | volume % |
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| 1 | CCoinUpDEX | ETH/USDT | $2,244.11 | $611,381 | $564,803 | $1,680,877,450 | 31.91% |
| 2 | BBlockFinDEX | ETH/USDT | $2,243.92 | $2,794,304 | $2,350,789 | $708,344,825 | 13.45% |
| 3 | BBTCCDEX | ETH/USDT | $2,243.79 | $7,537,549 | $8,390,416 | $618,966,750 | 11.75% |
| 4 | BBiFinanceDEX | ETH/USDT | $2,243.88 | $6,268,458 | $6,178,121 | $455,002,273 | 8.64% |
| 5 | BBlofinDEX | ETH/USDT | $2,243.94 | $2,787,752 | $2,604,811 | $387,485,988 | 7.36% |
| 6 | BBitspayDEX | ETH/USDT | $0.0005034 | -- | -- | $341,326,430 | 6.48% |
| 7 | BBinanceCEX | ETH/USDT | $2,243.95 | $9,983,842 | $21,044,527 | $232,320,437 | 4.41% |
| 8 | CCoin ChiefDEX | ETH/USDT | $2,242.26 | $83,176,193 | $77,775,660 | $196,022,675 | 3.72% |
| 9 | GGroveXDEX | ETH/USDT | $2,245.29 | $24,307,928 | $25,465,009 | $188,879,243 | 3.59% |
| 10 | ETH/USD | $2,243.49 | $8,002,843 | $7,681,368 | $188,377,041 | 3.58% |
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About Ethereum
Ethereum is the foundational Layer 1 for smart contracts, secured by a proof-of-stake consensus in which validators stake ETH to protect the network; staked ETH now represents roughly a third of total supply. It addresses the difficulty of combining decentralization with programmability while avoiding the gas and throughput limits that appear when a single chain tries to host high-frequency activity directly. Its core design uses the EVM as a global execution environment, separates execution from consensus, and pushes most activity down into Rollups so that the base layer acts mainly as a settlement and security anchor.
The trade-off is that L1 execution remains costly and relatively slow, so most user interaction has migrated to Rollups and sidechains, leaving the mainnet more a shared settlement and trust layer than a high-frequency front end. Scaling depends on external L2s rather than base-layer throughput, which also means value capture and user experience are partly ceded to the surrounding ecosystem.
In July 2014, Ethereum raised about $18M in its crowdsale, funding the smart-contract platform.
On July 30, 2015, Ethereum's Frontier mainnet launched, introducing Turing-complete smart contracts.
In July 2016, Ethereum's DAO exploit drained ~3.6M ETH; a hard fork reversed it, splitting ETH and ETC.
In 2017, the ICO boom made Ethereum the main token-issuance chain, and ETH and its ecosystem surged.
In December 2020, the Beacon Chain launched, beginning Ethereum's transition to proof of stake.
In August 2021, Ethereum's London upgrade activated EIP-1559, introducing base-fee burning.
In 2022, Ethereum's L2 ecosystem expanded quickly, with Arbitrum and Optimism rollups absorbing large volumes.
On September 15, 2022, Ethereum completed The Merge, shifting from PoW to PoS and cutting energy use by ~99.95%.
In April 2023, Ethereum's Shanghai upgrade enabled staking withdrawals, completing the PoS economic loop.
On March 13, 2024, Ethereum's Dencun upgrade activated EIP-4844 blob transactions, sharply cutting rollup data costs.
In May 2025, Ethereum's Pectra upgrade shipped account abstraction and validator improvements.
In December 2025, Ethereum's Fusaka upgrade landed, using PeerDAS and blob scaling to raise L1 and rollup scalability.
Network upgrade: The Glamsterdam upgrade activated on the Sepolia testnet on October 6 and is scheduled for the Hoodi testnet on October 26 (with the gas limit raised to 200 million), introducing enshrined proposer-builder separation and block-level access lists; mainnet is expected in Q4 2026. Staked ETH exceeded 42 million, roughly one-third of circulating supply, with an entry queue of about 1.28 million ETH in mid-October.
Institutions & market: Corporate treasuries collectively hold over 6.1 million ETH (about $19 billion), with BitMine stack growing to roughly 6.03 million ETH, mostly staked; BlackRock has launched two tokenized money-market funds on Ethereum. However, U.S. spot Ether ETFs saw net outflows of about $954.8 million in the first half of October, Charles Schwab began rolling out external ETH wallet transfers, and VanEck withdrew its proposed Lido staked Ether ETF.
On March 12, 2026 BlackRock's iShares Staked Ethereum Trust (ETHB) listed in the US with $107 million in seed capital, becoming the first spot ether ETF with built-in staking, and it began staking on May 4; Fidelity's FETH was cleared to stake on August 21, while Morgan Stanley's MSSE listed on NYSE Arca on July 28. A joint SEC-CFTC interpretive release on March 17 placed staking rewards outside securities law.
At the protocol level, Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade activated on Sepolia on October 6 and finalized successfully, and on October 16 the Foundation published the Hoodi schedule: activation at epoch 132,352 on October 26 at 17:42 UTC, with the gas limit rising from 60 million to 200 million. No mainnet date has been set. The upgrade includes EIP-7732 enshrined proposer-builder separation, EIP-7928 block-level access lists and EIP-8037 state-creation metering. The Foundation's research and development arm has been reorganised into a leaner Protocol team.
Ethereum's core question is converting its settlement-layer position into durable fee flow: after Fusaka compressed blob costs and cut L2 fees, mainnet revenue did not rise in step, and Glamsterdam's higher gas limit, enshrined PBS and parallel execution are near-term scaling but longer-term an attempt to make L1 the place settlement must happen. Demand has shifted from retail to institutions, with roughly $158 billion of stablecoins and more than half of global supply, tokenized Treasuries and money funds locking ETH as collateral, and staked ETFs selling a 3-4% coupon to pensions. Pressure comes from Solana contesting trading flow and corporate chains diverting payments, and Ethereum's answer is neutrality and censorship resistance rather than single-chain throughput.
Ethereum has no conventional corporate staff; its core is the foundation and client teams. Vitalik Buterin is co-founder and author of the white paper, wrote the design in 2013, saw the network launch in 2015, still sits on the foundation board, and has moved his research from consensus to privacy, account abstraction and censorship resistance. Joseph Lubin is a co-founder who started ConsenSys in 2014 and still leads it as founder.
Foundation president Aya Miyaguchi took the role in 2018 after years in education in Japan, overseeing grants, Devcon and developer relations. In March 2025 it moved to co-executive directors, Tomasz Stańczak and Hsiao-Wei Wang sharing operations; Stańczak left in February 2026 and Bastian Aue became interim executive director covering grants and daily running.