Ethereum Price in 2018
In 2018, the price of ethereum averaged $481.00 per coin, up 116.7% from the year before. This page covers the 2018 average, high, low, and year-end close, the events that moved the market, and what that ethereum would be worth in today's dollars.
2018 Average
$481.00
Annual average of daily closes
Change vs 2017
+116.7%
from $222.00 in 2017
What happened to the ethereum price in 2018
Ethereum averaged $481.00 per coin in 2018, surging 116.7% from the $222.00 average of 2017. Annual moves of that size are rare and put 2018 among the most explosive years in the asset's modern history. The defining story of 2018: Crypto winter / bear market; ETH fell from a ~$1,400 January peak to about $133 by December..
Ethereum launched in 2015 and spent the rest of the decade establishing itself. The 2016 DAO hack and hard fork, the 2017 ICO boom that carried ETH toward $1,400, and the brutal 2018 crypto winter all defined its early years.
Adjusted for inflation, ethereum's 2018 average of $481.00 equals about $617 in today's dollars. The conversion uses US Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U annual averages, so treat it as a close approximation rather than an exact figure.
Frequently Asked Questions
What was the price of ethereum in 2018?
What is a 2018 ethereum price worth in today's dollars?
What moved the ethereum price in 2018?
Annual figures are the mean of daily closing prices in US dollars; 2015 is a partial year from the July 2015 mainnet launch. Where daily data exists, the per-year high, low, and close come from MetalCharts historical data. Inflation adjustments use BLS CPI-U annual averages.