vs Yesterday
+$52
Daily ETH moves typically 1–3%.
ETH / USD · Spot
Ethereum (ETH) Price
$
3,825
+$52 vs. yesterday (+1.4%)
Past 12 months$2,540 – $3,920
vs Last Year+$1,180
YoY Return+44.6%
2021 ATH$4,878
ETH at $3,825 — up +44.6% YoY after recovering 2.6× from the April 2025 lows. Still 22% below the November 2021 record at $4,878.
Historical trend
Daily close (UTC).
Source: CoinGecko (volume-weighted across major exchanges)
The long view: since 2015
From $0.43 at launch to today — and the brutal cycles in between.
ATH $4,878 · Nov 2021
Cycle low $84 · Dec 2018
Today $3,825
How today stacks up
vs Last Year
+$1,180
+44.6% — outperforming BTC's +20%.
5-Year Average
$2,950
Today is $875 above the 5-yr mean.
From ATH
−21.6%
22% below the Nov 2021 peak.
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About the Ethereum Price
Ethereum (ETH) is the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, behind Bitcoin. Unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum is also a programmable smart-contract platform — it hosts most of the DeFi (decentralized finance) ecosystem, NFT markets, and the bulk of Layer-2 scaling solutions. The price you see ($3,825) is the spot rate on major exchanges, sourced from CoinGecko's volume-weighted average.
What moves ETH
Ethereum trades with high correlation to Bitcoin (~0.85 on daily moves) but with higher beta — it tends to move 1.5–2× as much in either direction during regime shifts. Catalysts unique to ETH include protocol upgrades (the Merge in 2022, Dencun in 2024), Layer-2 adoption metrics, gas fee dynamics, and ETF flows (the spot Ethereum ETFs launched in July 2024). When the U.S. dollar weakens, ETH tends to outperform Bitcoin.
Reading today's price
ETH peaked at $4,878 in November 2021 during the broad crypto cycle high. Today's $3,825 is roughly 22% below that record. The 2025 drawdown — to $1,480 in April 2025 during the tariff shock — was the deepest since the 2022 bear. ETH has recovered 2.6× from those lows. The path from here depends heavily on overall risk appetite and Layer-2 adoption — fundamentals that don't move daily.
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Frequently asked
What this number means, and what it doesn't.
Bitcoin is digital money — a store of value with a fixed supply. Ethereum is a programmable platform where developers deploy smart contracts (DeFi protocols, NFTs, DAOs, stablecoins). ETH itself functions as the gas (transaction fee currency) that powers the network. Both are top crypto assets but they serve different purposes.
In September 2022, Ethereum switched from proof-of-work mining (energy-intensive) to proof-of-stake validation (validators lock up ETH as security). The change reduced Ethereum's energy use by ~99.95% and made ETH "deflationary" under certain network conditions — supply now slowly shrinks when transaction volume is high.
Yes. Spot Ethereum ETFs launched in July 2024 (BlackRock's ETHA, Fidelity's FETH, Grayscale's ETHE, etc.). They offer exposure without managing wallets or private keys, hold actual ETH in cold storage, and trade like any other ETF on stock exchanges.
A Layer-2 is a separate blockchain that batches transactions and settles them on Ethereum to inherit security. Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and zkSync are the major Layer-2s. They've become essential to Ethereum's scaling — most retail crypto activity now happens on Layer-2s, then settles to Ethereum mainnet.
Methodology
Source
Pulled from CoinGecko and cached on the EvvyTools server.
Update schedule
Refreshed automatically by our cron whenever the upstream source publishes a new value. Historical values are not revised after publication.
How we compute
Display value is the raw published number, unrounded. Comparison stats use the closest available reference date. We never edit the underlying data.