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Ethereum (ETH) price and market data
Layer 1 network · Proof of Stake
Short answer: Ethereum is the programmable blockchain for smart contracts, secured by staked ETH since the 2022 move to proof of stake. The panel below loads its live price, market cap, volume, supply, and 24h/7d/30d performance from named public sources with the as-of time printed on it. The sections after it explain what Ethereum is and how it works, without quoting prices that would go stale.
What is Ethereum?
Ethereum is a programmable blockchain that launched in July 2015. Where Bitcoin focuses on payments, Ethereum runs smart contracts: small programs that execute exactly as written once deployed. Most decentralized finance applications, token systems, and NFT markets are built on it or on networks that copy its design.
Ether (ETH) pays for computation on the network, the fee called gas, and secures the chain through staking. Ethereum replaced mining with proof of stake in September 2022 (the Merge), cutting the network's energy use by over 99 percent. Since the 2021 fee-burn upgrade (EIP-1559), the base portion of every transaction fee is destroyed, so ETH supply can shrink during busy periods.
How Ethereum works
- Validators lock up ETH as stake and take turns proposing and confirming blocks; dishonest behavior risks losing part of that stake.
- Every action on the network costs gas, priced in ETH, which keeps computation scarce and pays for security.
- The base fee of each transaction is burned rather than paid to validators, offsetting new issuance from staking rewards.
- Layer 2 networks (covered in our Learn guide) process transactions off the main chain and settle them back to Ethereum, inheriting much of its security.
The risk, in plain terms
ETH is volatile, and the smart contracts built on Ethereum carry their own bug and exploit risk on top of price risk.
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Ethereum in Weekly Movers
In the Weekly Movers snapshot for the week ending October 3, 2026, Ethereum changed -0.13% over seven days at rank #2 by market cap (frozen snapshot, CoinGecko public market data (coins/markets, USD, market-cap order)). Ethereum is one of the two benchmark coins the desk reports every week regardless of whether it made the top-10 movers lists.
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Bitcoin BTC
Layer 1 network · Proof of Work
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Layer 1 network · Proof of Stake
#3 by market cap
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Frequently asked questions
What is the current price of Ethereum?
The live panel at the top of this page shows the latest ETH price in US dollars, loaded in your browser from the CoinGecko public market API with the CoinPaprika public API as fallback. It refreshes about every two minutes while the page is open and prints its source and as-of time beside the figures. An aggregator price is a market-wide average across exchanges; a single exchange can quote slightly higher or lower at the same moment.
How is Ethereum's market cap calculated?
Market capitalization is the current price multiplied by the circulating supply, the amount of ETH in public hands as reported by the data source. Where the source publishes total and maximum supply, this page shows those beside the circulating figure so the gap is visible. Market cap values the circulating coins at today's price; it is not the amount of money anyone has invested in the asset, and it moves whenever either the price or the reported supply changes.
Is ETH a good investment?
CryptosEyes does not make that call for any asset. This page publishes market data with named sources and explains how Ethereum works, so you can judge it against your own research. The risk to understand first: ETH is volatile, and the smart contracts built on Ethereum carry their own bug and exploit risk on top of price risk.
Market data only, not investment advice. Back to all crypto prices or Weekly Movers.