Ethereum's price history suggests that that crypto was worth more in 2025 than during late 2021, although nowhere near the highest price recorded. Much like Bitcoin (BTC), the price of ETH went up in 2021 but for different reasons altogether: Ethereum, for instance, hit the news when a digital art piece was sold as the world's most expensive NFT for over 38,000 ETH - or 69.3 million U.S. dollars. Unlike Bitcoin, of which the price growth was fueled by the IPO of the U.S.'s biggest crypto trader, Coinbase, the rally on Ethereum came from technological developments that caused much excitement among traders. First, the so-called 'Berlin update' rolled out on the Ethereum network in April 2021, an update that would eventually lead to the Ethereum Merge in 2022 and reduced ETH gas prices - or reduced transaction fees. The collapse of FTX in late 2022, however, changed much for the cryptocurrency. As of August 27, 2025, Ethereum was worth 4,602.37 U.S. dollars - significantly less than the 4,400 U.S. dollars by the end of 2021.Ethereum's future and the DeFi industryPrice developments on Ethereum are difficult to predict but cannot be seen without the world of DeFi, or decentralized finance. This industry used technology to remove intermediaries between parties in a financial transaction. One example includes crypto wallets such as Coinbase Wallet that grew in popularity recently, with other examples including smart contractor Uniswap, Maker (responsible for stablecoin DAI), moneylender Dharma and market protocol Compound. Ethereum's future developments are tied with this industry: Unlike Bitcoin and Ripple, Ethereum is technically not a currency but an open-source software platform for blockchain applications, with Ether being the cryptocurrency that is used inside the Ethereum network. Essentially, Ethereum facilitates DeFi, meaning that if DeFi does well, so does Ethereum.NFTs: the most well-known application of EthereumNFTs or non-fungible tokens, grew nearly tenfold between 2018 and 2020, as can be seen in the market cap of NFTs worldwide. These digital blockchain assets can essentially function as a unique code connected to a digital file, allowing to distinguish the original file from any potential copies. This application is especially prominent in crypto art, although there are other applications: gaming, sports, and collectibles are other segments where NFT sales occur.

In April 2021, the Ethereum market cap reached new heights and grew to over *** billion U.S. dollars - the first time this cryptocurrency achieved that feat. The market capitalization in August 2020 was half this amount. Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying the total number of Ethereum in circulation by the Ethereum price. Compared to the Bitcoin market capitalization, however, Ethereum was not yet as popular.

The dominance of Ethereum (ETH) increased over the course of 2021 - after an initial decline - but was not as high as it was back in 2017. Within the crypto world, this so-called "dominance" ratio is one of the oldest and most investigated metrices available. It measures the coin's market cap relative to the overall crypto market - for instance, it shows how strong Bitcoin is compared to all the other cryptocurrencies that are not BTC, called "altcoins". In the case of Ethereum, the dominance somewhat reveals how often it is used for smart contracts and whether it is a popular blockchain for Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications.

View daily updates and historical trends for Ethereum Average Gas Price. Source: Etherscan. Track economic data with YCharts analytics.

View daily updates and historical trends for Ethereum Market Cap. Source: Etherscan. Track economic data with YCharts analytics.

By March 2022, over *** million Ethereum tokens were issued and in active circulation - but it is expected new coins will not arrive at a fast pace. Although the cryptocurrency has an unlimited supply - unlike Bitcoin, of which there can only be ** million tokens and not a single more - the Ethereum blockchain received an update in August 2021, EIP-1559, that both increased the block size needed to create new coins and destroyed (“burned”) any transactions fees, rather than send them to the original miners. This led to a decline in issuance, as mining Ethereum essentially was made less profitable. Issuance is expected to decline further when Ethereum *** arrives.

Ethereum: a counter to inflation?

In a time when inflation rates became a big talking point, Ethereum received much social media attention in late 2021 for possibly being deflationary. This argument stems from August 2021, or “London Hard Fork”, upgrade in August 2021: Each transaction on the Ethereum network would entirely remove a portion of Ethereum from the total supply in circulation. On days of high transaction activity of Ethereum, for example, after a change in the price of Ethereum, this can effectively mean more coins are being destroyed than there are being created.

Ethereum supply to change after the upgrade to ***?

Experts state burning on a scale that the supply of Ethereum declines only happens on occasion, stating it acts more as a temporary slowdown of growth rather than an active attempt to continuously shrink supply. This could change, however, when Ethereum *** arrives – or when Ethereum switches from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS). The general assumption for this is that staking rewards are generally lower than rewards for Proof-of-Work (mining), lowering the incentive for the creation of new coins. If usage – which some measure via the Ethereum gas price, or transaction fee per transaction – remains unchanged otherwise, this would lower the threshold for Ethereum to become deflationary.

View daily updates and historical trends for Ethereum Supply. Source: Etherscan. Track economic data with YCharts analytics.

Context

In the last few days, I have been hearing a lot of buzz around cryptocurrencies. Things like Block chain, Bitcoin, Bitcoin cash, Ethereum, Ripple etc are constantly coming in the news articles I read. So I wanted to understand more about it and this post helped me get started. Once the basics are done, the DS guy sleeping inside me (always lazy.!) woke up and started raising questions like

1. How many such cryptocurrencies are there and what are their prices and valuations?
2. Why is there a sudden surge in the interest in recent days? Is it due to the increase in the price in the last few days? etc.

For getting answers to all these questions (and if possible to predict the future prices ;)), I started getting the data from coinmarketcap about the cryptocurrencies.

Content

This dataset has the historical price information of some of the top cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. The currencies included are

• Bitcoin
• Ethereum
• Ripple
• Bitcoin cash
• Bitconnect
• Dash
• Ethereum Classic
• Iota
• Litecoin
• Monero
• Nem
• Neo
• Numeraire
• Stratis
• Waves

In case if you are interested in the prices of some other currencies, please post in comments section and I will try to add them in the next version. I am planning to revise it once in a week.

Dataset has one csv file for each currency. Price history is available on a daily basis from April 28, 2013 till Aug 07, 2017. The columns in the csv file are

• Date : date of observation
• Open : Opening price on the given day
• High : Highest price on the given day
• Low : Lowest price on the given day
• Close : Closing price on the given day
• Volume : Volume of transactions on the given day
• Market Cap : Market capitalization in USD

Acknowledgements

This data is taken from coinmarketcap and it is free to use the data.

Cover Image : Photo by Thomas Malama on Unsplash

Inspiration

Some of the questions which could be inferred from this dataset are:

1. How did the historical prices / market capitalizations of various currencies change over time?
2. Predicting the future price of the currencies
3. Which currencies are more volatile and which ones are more stable?
4. How does the price fluctuations of currencies correlate with each other?
5. Seasonal trend in the price fluctuations

View daily updates and historical trends for Ethereum Transactions Per Day. Source: Etherscan. Track economic data with YCharts analytics.

Cryptocurrency Ethereum would be processed over *********** times per day in early 2021, a figured that stayed relatively stable in recent years. Compared to other cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, this transaction volume was significantly bigger. This might explain the high market capitalization of several cryptocurrencies.

View daily updates and historical trends for Ethereum Average Transaction Fee. Source: Etherscan. Track economic data with YCharts analytics.

Context

Real and up to date stock market exchange of cryptocurrencies can be quite expensive and are hard to get. However, historical financial data are the starting point to develop algorithm(s) to analyze market trend and why not beat the market by predicting market movement.

Content

Data provided in this dataset are historical data from the beginning of ETC-ETH pair market on Kraken exchange up to the present (2021 December). This data comes frome real trades on one of the most popular cryptocurrencies exchange.

Trading history

Historical market data, also known as trading history, time and sales or tick data, provides a detailed record of every trade that happens on Kraken exchange, and includes the following information: - Timestamp - The exact date and time of each trade. - Price - The price at which each trade occurred. - Volume - The amount of volume that was traded.

OHLCVT

In addition, OHLCVT data are provided for the most common period interval: 1 min, 5 min, 15 min, 1 hour, 12 hours and 1 day. OHLCVT stands for Open, High, Low, Close, Volume and Trades and represents the following trading information for each time period: - Open - The first traded price - High - The highest traded price - Low - The lowest traded price - Close - The final traded price - Volume - The total volume traded by all trades - Trades - The number of individual trades

Don't hesitate to tell me if you need other period interval 😉 ...

Update

This dataset will be updated every quarter to add new and up to date market trend. Let me know if you need an update more frequently.

Inspiration

Can you beat the market? Let see what you can do with these data!

Context

Real and up to date stock market exchange of cryptocurrencies can be quite expensive and are hard to get. However, historical financial data are the starting point to develop algorithm(s) to analyze market trend and why not beat the market by predicting market movement.

Content

Data provided in this dataset are historical data from the beginning of MLN-ETH pair market on Kraken exchange up to the present (2021 December). This data comes frome real trades on one of the most popular cryptocurrencies exchange.

Trading history

Historical market data, also known as trading history, time and sales or tick data, provides a detailed record of every trade that happens on Kraken exchange, and includes the following information: - Timestamp - The exact date and time of each trade. - Price - The price at which each trade occurred. - Volume - The amount of volume that was traded.

OHLCVT

In addition, OHLCVT data are provided for the most common period interval: 1 min, 5 min, 15 min, 1 hour, 12 hours and 1 day. OHLCVT stands for Open, High, Low, Close, Volume and Trades and represents the following trading information for each time period: - Open - The first traded price - High - The highest traded price - Low - The lowest traded price - Close - The final traded price - Volume - The total volume traded by all trades - Trades - The number of individual trades

Don't hesitate to tell me if you need other period interval 😉 ...

Update

This dataset will be updated every quarter to add new and up to date market trend. Let me know if you need an update more frequently.

Inspiration

Can you beat the market? Let see what you can do with these data!

Context

Real and up to date stock market exchange of cryptocurrencies can be quite expensive and are hard to get. However, historical financial data are the starting point to develop algorithm(s) to analyze market trend and why not beat the market by predicting market movement.

Content

Data provided in this dataset are historical data from the beginning of OXT-ETH pair market on Kraken exchange up to the present (2021 December). This data comes frome real trades on one of the most popular cryptocurrencies exchange.

Trading history

Historical market data, also known as trading history, time and sales or tick data, provides a detailed record of every trade that happens on Kraken exchange, and includes the following information: - Timestamp - The exact date and time of each trade. - Price - The price at which each trade occurred. - Volume - The amount of volume that was traded.

OHLCVT

In addition, OHLCVT data are provided for the most common period interval: 1 min, 5 min, 15 min, 1 hour, 12 hours and 1 day. OHLCVT stands for Open, High, Low, Close, Volume and Trades and represents the following trading information for each time period: - Open - The first traded price - High - The highest traded price - Low - The lowest traded price - Close - The final traded price - Volume - The total volume traded by all trades - Trades - The number of individual trades

Don't hesitate to tell me if you need other period interval 😉 ...

Update

This dataset will be updated every quarter to add new and up to date market trend. Let me know if you need an update more frequently.

Inspiration

Can you beat the market? Let see what you can do with these data!

StaFi Staked ETH Ang pagsubaybay sa kasaysayan ng presyo ay nagbibigay-daan sa mga crypto investor na madaling masubaybayan ang performance ng kanilang pamumuhunan. Maginhawa mong masusubaybayan ang opening value, high, at close sa StaFi Staked ETH sa paglipas ng panahon, pati na rin ang trade volume. Bukod pa rito, maaari mong agad na tingnan ang pang-araw-araw na pagbabago bilang isang porsyento, na ginagawang effortless na tukuyin ang mga araw na may significant fluctuations. Ayon sa aming data ng history ng presyo ng StaFi Staked ETH, tumaas ang halaga nito sa hindi pa naganap na peak sa 2024-10-02, na lumampas sa $2,631.13 USD. Sa kabilang banda, ang pinakamababang punto sa trajectory ng presyo ni StaFi Staked ETH, na karaniwang tinutukoy bilang "StaFi Staked ETH all-time low", ay naganap noong 2023-10-12. Kung ang isa ay bumili ng StaFi Staked ETH sa panahong iyon, kasalukuyan silang masisiyahan sa isang kahanga-hangang kita na -100%. Sa pamamagitan ng disenyo, ang 2,111.43 StaFi Staked ETH ay malilikha. Sa ngayon, ang circulating supply ng StaFi Staked ETH ay tinatayang 0. Ang lahat ng mga presyong nakalista sa pahinang ito ay nakuha mula sa Bitget, galing sa isang reliable source. Napakahalagang umasa sa iisang pinagmulan upang suriin ang iyong mga investment, dahil maaaring mag-iba ang mga halaga sa iba't ibang nagbebenta. Kasama sa aming makasaysayang StaFi Staked ETH dataset ng presyo ang data sa pagitan ng 1 minuto, 1 araw, 1 linggo, at 1 buwan (bukas/mataas/mababa/close/volume). Ang mga dataset na ito ay sumailalim sa mahigpit na pagsubok upang matiyak ang consistency, pagkakumpleto, at accurancy. Ang mga ito ay partikular na idinisenyo para sa trade simulation at mga layunin ng backtesting, madaling magagamit para sa libreng pag-download, at na-update sa real-time.

ETH Monsta Ang pagsubaybay sa kasaysayan ng presyo ay nagbibigay-daan sa mga crypto investor na madaling masubaybayan ang performance ng kanilang pamumuhunan. Maginhawa mong masusubaybayan ang opening value, high, at close sa ETH Monsta sa paglipas ng panahon, pati na rin ang trade volume. Bukod pa rito, maaari mong agad na tingnan ang pang-araw-araw na pagbabago bilang isang porsyento, na ginagawang effortless na tukuyin ang mga araw na may significant fluctuations. Ayon sa aming data ng history ng presyo ng ETH Monsta, tumaas ang halaga nito sa hindi pa naganap na peak sa 2023-05-19, na lumampas sa $0.002440 USD. Sa kabilang banda, ang pinakamababang punto sa trajectory ng presyo ni ETH Monsta, na karaniwang tinutukoy bilang "ETH Monsta all-time low", ay naganap noong 2023-08-16. Kung ang isa ay bumili ng ETH Monsta sa panahong iyon, kasalukuyan silang masisiyahan sa isang kahanga-hangang kita na -100%. Sa pamamagitan ng disenyo, ang 278,367,057 ETH Monsta ay malilikha. Sa ngayon, ang circulating supply ng ETH Monsta ay tinatayang 0. Ang lahat ng mga presyong nakalista sa pahinang ito ay nakuha mula sa Bitget, galing sa isang reliable source. Napakahalagang umasa sa iisang pinagmulan upang suriin ang iyong mga investment, dahil maaaring mag-iba ang mga halaga sa iba't ibang nagbebenta. Kasama sa aming makasaysayang ETH Monsta dataset ng presyo ang data sa pagitan ng 1 minuto, 1 araw, 1 linggo, at 1 buwan (bukas/mataas/mababa/close/volume). Ang mga dataset na ito ay sumailalim sa mahigpit na pagsubok upang matiyak ang consistency, pagkakumpleto, at accurancy. Ang mga ito ay partikular na idinisenyo para sa trade simulation at mga layunin ng backtesting, madaling magagamit para sa libreng pag-download, at na-update sa real-time.

EGG ETH Ang pagsubaybay sa kasaysayan ng presyo ay nagbibigay-daan sa mga crypto investor na madaling masubaybayan ang performance ng kanilang pamumuhunan. Maginhawa mong masusubaybayan ang opening value, high, at close sa EGG ETH sa paglipas ng panahon, pati na rin ang trade volume. Bukod pa rito, maaari mong agad na tingnan ang pang-araw-araw na pagbabago bilang isang porsyento, na ginagawang effortless na tukuyin ang mga araw na may significant fluctuations. Ayon sa aming data ng history ng presyo ng EGG ETH, tumaas ang halaga nito sa hindi pa naganap na peak sa 2024-03-10, na lumampas sa $0.0002391 USD. Sa kabilang banda, ang pinakamababang punto sa trajectory ng presyo ni EGG ETH, na karaniwang tinutukoy bilang "EGG ETH all-time low", ay naganap noong 2024-10-09. Kung ang isa ay bumili ng EGG ETH sa panahong iyon, kasalukuyan silang masisiyahan sa isang kahanga-hangang kita na -100%. Sa pamamagitan ng disenyo, ang 6B EGG ETH ay malilikha. Sa ngayon, ang circulating supply ng EGG ETH ay tinatayang 0. Ang lahat ng mga presyong nakalista sa pahinang ito ay nakuha mula sa Bitget, galing sa isang reliable source. Napakahalagang umasa sa iisang pinagmulan upang suriin ang iyong mga investment, dahil maaaring mag-iba ang mga halaga sa iba't ibang nagbebenta. Kasama sa aming makasaysayang EGG ETH dataset ng presyo ang data sa pagitan ng 1 minuto, 1 araw, 1 linggo, at 1 buwan (bukas/mataas/mababa/close/volume). Ang mga dataset na ito ay sumailalim sa mahigpit na pagsubok upang matiyak ang consistency, pagkakumpleto, at accurancy. Ang mga ito ay partikular na idinisenyo para sa trade simulation at mga layunin ng backtesting, madaling magagamit para sa libreng pag-download, at na-update sa real-time.

Bitcoin dominance steadily declined in April 2024 to below ** percent, amid rumors of central banks halting or potentially lowering interest rates in the future. Within the crypto world, this so-called "dominance" ratio is one of the oldest and most investigated metrics available. It measures the coin's market cap relative to the overall crypto market — effectively showing how strong Bitcoin compared to all the other cryptocurrencies that are not BTC, called "altcoins". Why dominance matters is because market caps of any crypto can change relatively quickly, either due to sudden price changes or a change of recorded trading volume. Essentially, the figure somewhat resembles a trading sentiment, revealing whether Bitcoin investors are responding to certain events or whether Bitcoin is losing out on functions offered by, for example, stablecoins or NFT tokens. "Dominance" criticism: Ethereum and stablecoin The interpretation of the Bitcoin metric is not without its criticism. When first conceived, Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency to be created and had a substantial market share within all cryptocurrencies? The overall share of stablecoins, such as Tether, as well as Ethereum increasingly start to resemble that of Bitcoin, however. Some analysts argue against this comparison. For one, they point towards the large influence of trading activity between Bitcoin and Ethereum in the dominance metric. Second, they argue that stablecoins can be traded in for Bitcoin and Ethereum, essentially showing how much investors are willing to engage with "regular" cryptocurrency. A rally around Bitcoin in late 2023? By December 2023, the Bitcoin price reached roughly 41,000 U.S. dollars — the first time in 20 months such a value was reached. A weaker U.S. dollar, speculation on decreasing interest rates, and a potential Bitcoin ETF approval are believed to be at the heart of this price increase. Whether this will hold in 2024 is unclear: The monthly interest rate from the U.S. Fed is speculated to decrease in 2024, despite a vow of "higher for longer". In December 2023, the thought of decreasing interest rates and the potential of a Bitcoin ETF fuelled market sentiment towards riskier assets.

The price of the native coin from BNB Chain (formerly BSC) grew by 50 percent in late 2021 but was much lower in 2022. On September 14, 2025, for example, a single BNB coin was worth more than 933.9 U.S. dollars - a value that is very different from the all-time high of 933.9 U.S. dollars in November 2021. Regardless, Binance Coin ranked in the top 10 most expensive cryptocurrencies in 2022. Noticeable is that the price increase of BNB in November 2021 coincides with a similar price change for Ethereum (ETH), a cryptocurrency where BNB initially originated in 2017 before coming to its own years later.BNB's history: From a reward token in 2017 to an ecosystem after 2019As the name suggests, Binance Coin, or BNB, originally started as an extension of the Binance.com trading platform, the most used cryptocurrency exchange in the world. It initially functioned on the Ethereum blockchain network as an ERC-20 token, offering incentives to owners like reduced trading fees, affiliate rewards, or a lottery ticket system ('Launchpad') that let users invest in new, Binance-selected crypto projects. In 2019, however, BNB moved away from the Ethereum network and migrated to Binance's self-developed blockchain: Binance Smart Chain, or BSC (called BNB Chain since February 2022). Here, BNB started to support a chain that initially did not focus on hosting decentralized apps but focused on high transaction speed and being able to handle large amounts of traffic.DeFi and GameFi: the main segments for BNBBSC, however, made significant strides in 2021, partly due to traffic overload and high gas prices on Ethereum, as well as the growing interest in both Decentralized Finance (DeFI) and NFTs. Much like Cardano, Solana, and Terra, Binance Smart Chain consequently became a valid alternative to Ethereum. The total value locked (TVL) of BNBs blockchain within DeFi, for example, ranked only behind that of Terra and Ethereum in early 2022. Another area where Binance's blockchain and token play a significant role is that of GameFi, or 'play-to-earn' blockchain games that are powered by cryptocurrencies. Some of the more well-known and most popular NFT games, like Alien Worlds and Axie Infinity, run on the blockchain behind BNB.

Context

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have captured the imagination of technologists, financiers, and economists. Digital currencies are only one application of the underlying blockchain technology. Like its predecessor, Bitcoin, the Ethereum blockchain can be described as an immutable distributed ledger. However, creator Vitalik Buterin also extended the set of capabilities by including a virtual machine that can execute arbitrary code stored on the blockchain as smart contracts.

Both Bitcoin and Ethereum are essentially OLTP databases, and provide little in the way of OLAP (analytics) functionality. However the Ethereum dataset is notably distinct from the Bitcoin dataset:

• The Ethereum blockchain has as its primary unit of value Ether, while the Bitcoin blockchain has Bitcoin. However, the majority of value transfer on the Ethereum blockchain is composed of so-called tokens. Tokens are created and managed by smart contracts.

• Ether value transfers are precise and direct, resembling accounting ledger debits and credits. This is in contrast to the Bitcoin value transfer mechanism, for which it can be difficult to determine the balance of a given wallet address.

• Addresses can be not only wallets that hold balances, but can also contain smart contract bytecode that allows the programmatic creation of agreements and automatic triggering of their execution. An aggregate of coordinated smart contracts could be used to build a decentralized autonomous organization.

Content

The Ethereum blockchain data are now available for exploration with BigQuery. All historical data are in the ethereum_blockchain dataset, which updates daily.

Our hope is that by making the data on public blockchain systems more readily available it promotes technological innovation and increases societal benefits.

Querying BigQuery tables

You can use the BigQuery Python client library to query tables in this dataset in Kernels. Note that methods available in Kernels are limited to querying data. Tables are at bigquery-public-data.crypto_ethereum.[TABLENAME]. Fork this kernel to get started.

Acknowledgements

Cover photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash

Inspiration

• What are the most popularly exchanged digital tokens, represented by ERC-721 and ERC-20 smart contracts?
• Compare transaction volume and transaction networks over time
• Compare transaction volume to historical prices by joining with other available data sources like Bitcoin Historical Data