Ethereum's price history suggests that that crypto was worth significantly less in 2022 than during late 2021, although nowhere near the lowest 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.' 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 which 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 March 25, 2025, Ethereum was worth 2,067.76 U.S. dollars - significantly less than the 4,400 U.S. dollars by the end of 2021.Ethereum's future and the DeFi industry Price 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 in recent years, with other examples including smart contractor Uniswap, Maker (responsible for stablecoin DAI), money lender 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 ten-fold 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.

The price of Ethereum Classic (ETC) - a different crypto than Ethereum (ETH) - decreased significantly following the Ethereum Merge of September 2022. After years of development, the "original" Ethereum changed from proof-of-work (mining) to proof-of-stake (staking) during this event. This change had the potential to impact both the transaction speed as well as the energy consumption of the Ethereum blockchain. Some miners, however, started looking into Proof-of-Work alternatives were they could continue using their mining rigs - including Ethereum Classic (ETC), but also EthereumPOW (ETHW), and Ravencoin (RVN). The influx caused such a spike in hashrate - the computing power required to successfully mine a crypto - that the price declined.

In April 2021, the Ethereum market cap reached new heights and grew to over 250 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.

Ethereum's annualized footprint in electricity consumption declined substantially in the wake of Ethereum Merge in September 2022. Originally, the energy required to mine Ethereum in 2021 exceeding the consumption of countries like Colombia or Czechia - but the move away from proof of work (mining) to proof of stake (staking) changed things substantially. This according to a source that tries to estimate the energy consumption of Ethereum (ETH). It does by assuming that miner costs and income are the same thing: The higher the miner income, the more powerful machinery it can support. Essentially, the source first calculated how much miners earn, then estimated how much of this income is spent on electricity and how much per kWH, to finally be converted into consumption figures. The main reason this figure is an estimate, is due to the decentralized nature of Ethereum or cryptocurrencies in general: There is no central authority that tracks how many computers there are or where miners submit figures. Ethereum energy consumption is of importance for developments regarding NFTs and other applications of decentralized finance or DeFi - as the market share of the Ethereum blockchain in DeFi far exceeds that of other blockchains.

Ethereum trading volume more than doubled on May 19, 2021, compared to the previous day, following news China banned crypto services inside the country. Following this news, the market cap for the entire crypto market fell by billions of U.S. dollars. The Ethereum price that day also witnessed one of its biggest single-day declines on record. The price decline potentially may have attracted new investors to the cryptocurrency, leading to the increase in trading volume.

Cryptocurrency Ethereum would be processed over one million 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.

The price of an Ethereum sister project aimed at preserving the cryptocurrency's old mining network decreased significantly in September 2022. The fork - a change to a blockchain's code - occurred in the build-up towards the Ethereum Merge that month, when Ethereum (ETH) changed from proof-of-work (mining) to proof-of-stake (staking). This change had the potential to impact both the transaction speed as well as the energy consumption of the Ethereum blockchain. Some of the network's former miners, though, planned to keep the old system running in a project called EthereumPOW (ETHW). Analysts observed the initial launch of ETHW was marred with both technical problems as well as competition from Ethereum Classic (ETC) - an older version of ETH.

By March 2022, over 119 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 21 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 2.0 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 2.0?

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 2.0 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.

In January 2023, the ether price was $2,487 per ton (FOB, Germany), dropping 2.2% from the previous month.

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.

Ethan Allen reported 25.43M in Outstanding Shares in January of 2025. Data for Ethan Allen | ETH - Outstanding Shares including historical, tables and charts were last updated by Trading Economics this last March in 2025.

Ethereum market sentiment was bullish in April and May 2021, as is shown in the development of the cryptocurrency's NVT ratio. The Network Value to Transactions or NVT ratio is somewhat comparable to a P/E ratio, in that it compares the number of transactions of a particular coin on a set day against that coin's market cap. A low NVT ratio means that that transaction volume of a cryptocurrency is growing faster than the coin's market cap - meaning investor sentiment is bullish, or optimistic - whereas a high ratio refers to a network that has a relatively high network value but low network activity - meaning sentiment is bearish, or negative.

The market cap from NFT multiverse Decentraland was worth between 800 million and 1.4 billion U.S. dollars in September 2021 alone. Originally developed in Argentina, the 3D virtual reality platform is built on top of the Ethereum blockchain and combined elements of a marketplace, an online video game, and cryptocurrencies. In the game, people explore and build like Minecraft but some of the players own parts of the game world or its real estate - called LAND - which can be bought or sold using the game's cryptocurrency - called MANA - in the in-game marketplace, along with wearables and other in-game clothing for the players' digital characters. Similar to NFT game Alien Worlds, ownership of LAND gives players a say on what will happen on their plots - as visitors and brands add value to LAND. In way, Decentraland resembles property development.

Subscribers can find out export and import data of 23 countries by HS code or product’s name. This demo is helpful for market analysis.

Subscribers can find out export and import data of 23 countries by HS code or product’s name. This demo is helpful for market analysis.

Statistics illustrates monthly prices of ether-alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives; n.e.s. in item no. 2909.4 in Saudi Arabia from January 2019 to February 2025.

Subscribers can find out export and import data of 23 countries by HS code or product’s name. This demo is helpful for market analysis.

Subscribers can find out export and import data of 23 countries by HS code or product’s name. This demo is helpful for market analysis.

Mexico Imports: OC: Ethers, Ether-alcohols, Ether-phenols, Alcohol Peroxide data was reported at 34.658 USD mn in Feb 2019. This records an increase from the previous number of 24.147 USD mn for Jan 2019. Mexico Imports: OC: Ethers, Ether-alcohols, Ether-phenols, Alcohol Peroxide data is updated monthly, averaging 21.163 USD mn from Jan 1993 (Median) to Feb 2019, with 314 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 97.154 USD mn in May 2012 and a record low of 1.222 USD mn in Feb 1994. Mexico Imports: OC: Ethers, Ether-alcohols, Ether-phenols, Alcohol Peroxide data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bank of Mexico. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mexico – Table MX.JA011: Imports: by Commodities.

Subscribers can find out export and import data of 23 countries by HS code or product’s name. This demo is helpful for market analysis.