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Ethereum Price in 2021

In 2021, the price of ethereum averaged $2,779.00 per coin, up 802.3% from the year before. This page covers the 2021 average, high, low, and year-end close, the events that moved the market, and what that ethereum would be worth in today's dollars.

2021 Average

$2,779.00

Annual average of daily closes

Change vs 2020

+802.3%

from $308.00 in 2020

What happened to the ethereum price in 2021

Ethereum averaged $2,779.00 per coin in 2021, surging 802.3% from the $308.00 average of 2020. Annual moves of that size are rare and put 2021 among the most explosive years in the asset's modern history. The defining story of 2021: NFT/DeFi bull run; London hard fork (EIP-1559) in August; all-time high near $4,800-4,890 in November 2021..

The 2020s made Ethereum a core financial platform. DeFi Summer and the NFT boom drove the run to a record near $4,800 in 2021, the network completed its Merge to proof-of-stake in 2022, and US spot ETFs arrived in 2024.

Adjusted for inflation, ethereum's 2021 average of $2,779.00 equals about $3,305 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 2021?
Ethereum averaged $2,779.00 per coin in 2021, based on annual average data from daily closing prices. That average was up 802.3% from $308.00 in 2020.
What is a 2021 ethereum price worth in today's dollars?
Adjusted with the US Consumer Price Index, ethereum's 2021 average of $2,779.00 works out to roughly $3,305 in today's dollars, using 2025 as the CPI base year. The conversion uses BLS CPI-U annual averages, so treat it as a close approximation rather than an exact figure.
What moved the ethereum price in 2021?
The defining story of 2021: NFT/DeFi bull run; London hard fork (EIP-1559) in August; all-time high near $4,800-4,890 in November 2021.. Against that backdrop, the annual average climbed 802.3%, from $308.00 in 2020 to $2,779.00.

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.