{"id":34327,"date":"2021-01-03T12:42:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T10:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34327"},"modified":"2025-08-28T19:55:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:55:26","slug":"ethereum-price-breaks-above-the-900-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ethereum-price-breaks-above-the-900-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum price breaks above the $900 level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Bitcoin climbs to fresh highs, Ethereum breaks above the $900 level.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalisation last traded in that vicinity in February 2018.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_121289\" style=\"width: 1178px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121289\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121289\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ETH-22.png\" alt=\"Ethereum price breaks above the $900 level\" width=\"1168\" height=\"806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ETH-22.png 1168w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ETH-22-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ETH-22-1024x707.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ETH-22-768x530.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1168px) 100vw, 1168px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-121289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">30-minute ETH\/USD chart from TradingView.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ethereum&#8217;s price over the past year has surged by nearly 500% (Bitcoin&#8217;s, by comparison, is 366% according to <a href=\"https:\/\/messari.io\/asset\/bitcoin\/metrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Messari<\/a>). Yet ETH&#8217;s market value remains about 43% below its all-time high, reached 1,085 days ago.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_121274\" style=\"width: 911px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121274\" class=\"wp-image-121274 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Messari-8.png\" alt=\"Ethereum price breaks above the $900 level\" width=\"901\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Messari-8.png 901w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Messari-8-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Messari-8-768x565.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 901px) 100vw, 901px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-121274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: Messari.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Renowned trader Micha\u00ebl van de Poppe said that Ethereum, as well as Polkadot, Cardano and Chainlink, would soon hit new all-time highs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It\u2019s time for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ethereum?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ethereum<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Polkadot?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Polkadot<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cardano?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cardano<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Chainlink?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Chainlink<\/a> and more to break all-time highs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Micha\u00ebl van de Poppe (@CryptoMichNL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CryptoMichNL\/status\/1345659279727067138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One of the main drivers of Ethereum&#8217;s ascent is the rapid development of the decentralized finance sector.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"2ySBBiRxWW\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/the-defi-chronicles-of-2020-rapid-growth-challenges-and-institutional-headwinds\">DeFi Chronicles in 2020: rapid growth, problems and barriers for institutional investors<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"DeFi Chronicles in 2020: rapid growth, problems and barriers for institutional investors \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/exclusive\/hroniki-defi-v-2020-godu-stremitelnyj-rost-problemy-i-pregrady-dlya-institutsionalov\/embed#?secret=tVpcmyh6px#?secret=2ySBBiRxWW\" data-secret=\"2ySBBiRxWW\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ethereum 2.0 could also support the ETH price, with staking involving coins valued at <a href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/address\/0x00000000219ab540356cbb839cbe05303d7705fa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">valued at $1.7 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Messari <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/messari-institutional-investors-to-flock-to-ethereum-in-2021\">predicted<\/a> a rise in demand for Ethereum from institutional investors.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog\u2019s YouTube channel!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Bitcoin climbs to fresh highs, Ethereum breaks above the $900 level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-34327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ethereum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34329,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34327\/revisions\/34329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}