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Ethereum

ETH

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Price · USD$2,519.48
Market cap$307.71B
Volume · 24h$14.52B
Change · 24h-0.35%

ETH / USD

Price history

Updated 13 Oct, 16:19 UTC

6 Oct 2026 – 13 Oct 2026

Data: CoinMarketCap · Charts: TradingView
Token supply
Circulating
122,130,710 ETH
Newsroom · last 7 days1Published in this category
Newsroom archive40All dates · unprotected stories
Tracked releases · 180 days42Selected public repositories only
Latest newsroom story06 Oct 2026Publication date · UTC

THE BRIEFING

Ethereum, at a glance.

Observed block26,184,698Observed · 13 Oct 2026, 16:15 UTC
Pending transactions20Observed · 13 Oct 2026, 16:15 UTC
High gas estimate3.48 GweiObserved · 13 Oct 2026, 16:15 UTC

THE DEFI FOOTPRINT

Capital tracked on Ethereum

$51.18BTotal value locked · USD
$54.48BDaily observations · USD
14 SepRange low: $48.73B13 Oct

TVL is separate from token price and market capitalization. Observed · 13 Oct 2026, 15:24 UTC.

THE CHRONOLOGY

What happened. What came next.

234 matching entries · Page 1 of 12

Newsroom18:01 UTC · Published

Ethereum Activates Glamsterdam on Sepolia With 200M Gas Target

Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade has activated on the Sepolia testnet, moving one of the network’s most consequential scaling packages into a long-lived public testing environment. The fork went live at epoch 353,024, slot 11,296,768, at 13:53:36 UTC on October 6. According to the…

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All published, unprotected stories in this project’s category are available through these pages. Official publications cover the last 180 days of our tracked sources. Publication entries use publication dates. Market entries use the source observation time, with one record per UTC day.

BENEATH THE HEADLINES

The observations, in context.

Observed block26,184,698Observed · 13 Oct 2026, 16:15 UTC
Pending transactions20Observed · 13 Oct 2026, 16:15 UTC
High gas estimate3.48 GweiObserved · 13 Oct 2026, 16:15 UTC

Node observations have limited scope: queued or pending transactions are not network-wide totals. A block’s transactions are not daily activity. Fee estimates and resource prices are distinct from the total cost of a transaction. Protocol fees and revenue describe the named protocol version, not the token’s price or an investor’s return; versions are not summed.

DeFi total value locked

$51.18B
$54.48BDaily observations · USD
14 SepRange low: $48.73B13 Oct

Observed · 13 Oct 2026, 13:54 UTC. Price and protocol coverage can affect USD totals.

BUILD & SHIP

Published project updates.

Software publications from the repositories we track. Release counts do not measure developer numbers, commit activity or project quality. Publication dates are not activation dates.

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READ THE CONTEXT

About this dossier.

Ethereum · ETH

This dossier follows the project through our published coverage and the observations available for its verified identity. It updates as new information enters our collections.

Assets, networks and protocols are different entities. We do not assign a host network’s activity to every token issued on it.

Last observed in the daily selection: 13 Oct 2026 00:07 UTC. Leaving the top 50 does not remove this dossier or its news archive.

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Identity references supplied by CoinMarketCap · checked 10 Oct 2026. Repository publications cover only our selected sources.

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