Ethereum (ETH) — Price & Briefing

Ethereum is a programmable blockchain: beyond sending money, it runs smart contracts — self-executing agreements that power decentralized finance, NFTs, and thousands of apps. Ether (ETH) is the fuel that pays for computation on the network.

Ethereum price — last 90 days

The facts

• Launched: 2015
• Created by: Vitalik Buterin and co-founders
• How it is secured: Proof of Stake (since The Merge, Sep 2022)
• Supply: No hard cap; issuance is offset by fee burning

What to watch

Ethereum switched from mining to staking in 2022, cutting its energy use by over 99 percent. Its value rises and falls with activity across the whole app ecosystem built on top of it.

Latest Ethereum headlines

• Senate Probe Puts Binance, Tether and Trump-Linked Crypto Firms on Notice — BeInCrypto, 25m ago
• Vitalik Buterin Says ETH Fee Burn Will Not Drive Ethereum's Value — BeInCrypto, 31m ago
• Vitalik ‘pivots’ ETH to store of value, crypto suffers after US midterms: Hodler’s Digest — CoinTelegraph, 5h ago
• Vitalik Buterin Declares Ethereum (ETH) a Store of Value, Not Fee-Burning Token — U.Today, 11h ago
• Vitalik Buterin says ETH should be valued as a store of value, not a fee-burning token — The Block, 12h ago

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