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$13.29

7.44%

Jul 30th, 2015

Smart Contract Platform

Layer 1 (L1)

Proof of Work (PoW)

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$12.34

$13.44

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#59

Mcap

$2.06B

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$2.06B

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Circulating

155,115,585

Total

210,700,000

Created On

Jul 30th, 2015

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ATH

$167.09

ATH Change

-92.05%

ATH Date

May 6th, 2021

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Learn about Ethereum Classic

What Is an Investment DAO?

Investment DAOs are, as the name suggests, decentralized autonomous organizations where users pool their funds in order to make investments.

What Is Ethereum Classic?

Ethereum Classic is a smart contract platform and cryptocurrency. We explore its history and why it broke with Ethereum in 2016.

Ethereum Classic News

Jul 18, 2025

Markets

‘Early Signals’ of Altcoin Season as OG Tokens Pump Following XRP, BTC All-time Highs

Old-school cryptocurrencies are surging in the wake of XRP setting a new all-time high, after a painstaking seven-year wait. One expert believes it is an early sign of an altcoin season following Bitcoin’s all-time high on Monday, adding that newer altcoins could be next to pump. Major retro altcoins Ethereum Classic, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash have all seen notable gains, with other altcoin such as Uniswap, Dogecoin, and Hedera also jumping in value. “We're seeing early signals of an 'altcoin...

by Ryan S. Gladwin · 4 min read

Dec 5, 2024

Markets

Binance's BNB Token Hits All-Time High as Bitcoin and Ethereum Alts Swell

Binance’s native token (BNB) jumped to record highs on Wednesday amid a broader crypto market uplift that saw a resurgence in long-time altcoins affiliated with Ethereum and Bitcoin. BNB surged 8% to a new peak above $788, beating out its previous June all-time high of $710, CoinGecko data shows. The asset is used for trading fee discounts, transaction fees on the Binance Smart Chain, staking, participation in token sales, payments, borrowing, and lending. Meanwhile, Ethereum Classic (ETC) and...

by Sebastian Sinclair · 2 min read

Sep 3, 2024

The Landscape

What Is an Investment DAO?

Over the past few years, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) have become commonplace in cryptocurrency. Whether you discovered crypto through meme coins, NFTs, or DeFi, chances are you’ve interacted with a DAO somehow. DAOs are organizational structures for businesses or communities where control is spread via the distribution of tokens rather than hierarchy. They’re typically online communities focused on a specific goal. DAOs take many forms; some are light-hearted, like a group of s...

by Reza Jafery · 6 min read

May 4, 2023

Coins

DCG’s Barry Silbert Sells $755K Worth of Grayscale Ethereum Classic Trust Shares

Barry Silbert, the founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group (DCG), has sold some of his Grayscale Ethereum Classic Trust (ETCG) shares, according to a recent SEC filing. DCG is one of the largest crypto conglomerates on the market and counts Grayscale Investments, the trust’s issuer, as one of its subsidiaries. According to the filing, Silbert has moved to liquidate nearly 120,000 ETCG shares, worth an aggregate market value of approximately $755,295 dollars. This also appears to be the first t...

by Pedro Solimano · 2 min read

Sep 20, 2022

Coins

Ethereum Classic Plummets 23% Over Post-Merge Week

As the crypto bear market continues to pull the price of digital assets lower, Ethereum Classic and Ravencoin, both potential post-merge havens for proof-of-work miners, are seeing double-digit losses. The price of Ethereum Classic has fallen 23.4% in the week following the merge. The proof-of-work hardfork of the now proof-of-stake Ethereum saw the price of its coin drop from $38.93 on September 15, 2022, the day of the merge, to $29.39 today, according to data from CoinGecko. Ethereum Classic'...

by Jason Nelson · 2 min read

Sep 15, 2022

Business

Ethereum Classic, Ravencoin, and Ergo Hash Rate Soar Post-Merge

After Ethereum’s successful merge, miners began switching their rigs to other blockchains. Ethereum Classic (ETC), a hard fork of Ethereum executed following the 2016 DAO hack, saw its network hash jump nearly 300% from 66.54 terra hashes per second (TH/s) last night to 265.43 TH/s today, per data from 2miners. The tremendous increase in hash rate can likely be attributed to the Ethereum merge earlier today. Hash rate of ETH over the past 24 hours. Source: 2miners. After the merge, Ethereum no...

by Sujith Somraaj · 2 min read

Sep 14, 2022

Business

Ethereum Classic Hash Rate Soars as Merge Nears and Miners Roam

As Ethereum’s long-awaited upgrade nears, miners appear to be switching their rigs over to Ethereum Classic. Ethereum is set to end mining on its network tonight following the merge, which transitions the network to proof of stake. Meanwhile, the “original” Ethereum chain—Ethereum Classic, which forked back in 2016—has hit an all-time high hash rate of 65.49 terahashes per second (TH/s), according to 2miners.com data. Hash rate refers to the computational power used to mine a cryptocurrency. A...

by Mat Di Salvo · 2 min read

Sep 7, 2022

Markets

Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Lido Finance Plummet on Eve of Merge

Merge-related cryptocurrencies, including Ethereum (ETH), Ethereum Classic (ETC), and Lido Finance (Lido), have posted severe losses over the past 24 hours. Ethereum dropped 8.82% over the past 24 hours and trades at around $1,515 after bouncing off from its support at $1,500 earlier today. Ethereum is now down 68.95% from its all-time highs of $4,891.70 recorded in November 2021, per data from CoinMarketCap. On a weekly note, ETH is down 4%, hitting a new weekly low after the months-long bull r...

by Sujith Somraaj · 3 min read

Sep 5, 2022

Coins

Ethereum Classic Jumps Nearly 12% as Hash Rate Hits All-Time High

Ethereum Classic (ETC), a hard fork of Ethereum executed following the 2016 DAO hack, hit an all-time high record hash rate of 48.82 terra hashes per second (TH/s) yesterday, per data from 2miners. ETC, the native token of the Ethereum Classic network, has since jumped nearly 12% over the past 24 hours and trades at around $35.6, according to data from CoinMarketCap. The coin has surged over 60% in the past 90 days from $21.40 to $35.6 today. Hashrate is the total computational power used to m...

by Sujith Somraaj · 2 min read

Aug 26, 2022

Coins

Miners Eye Ethereum Classic Activity as Merge Nears

Holders of Ethereum Classic (ETC) are cautiously watching the mining activity of its blockchain, as the approaching merge of Ethereum (ETH) and its transition to the proof-of-stake consensus mechanism puts more attention on the six-year-old cryptocurrency. The drastic jump in activity may signal a shift in focus for cryptocurrency miners. It could also reduce the risks of a so-called "51% attack" on ETC, which have been levied against the blockchain in the past. The hash rate of the Ethereum Cla...

by Jason Nelson · 4 min read

Aug 13, 2022

Coins

This Week in Coins: Ethereum and Avalanche Rally, Crypto Winter Still Not Over

This week in coins. Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. Despite the ongoing cypto bear market, many top cryptocurrencies posted double-digit percentage gains over the week. Bitcoin had no such luck. Bitcoin only rose 5.5% over the last seven days and currently trades for $24,460 according to CoinMarketCap. Ethereum rallied much harder. The No. 2 cryptocurrency and leading blockchain for high-functionality smart contracts is up 16% in the past week to $1,984 at the time of writing, a...

by Tim Hakki · 4 min read

Aug 12, 2022

Coins

Ethereum Classic Hits 4-Month High as Merge Approaches

With anticipation building for the Ethereum merge next month, the price of Ethereum Classic (ETC) hit a four-month high of $42.29 per coin today, an increase of 15 percent in 24 hours, before settling slightly lower for the day, according to CoinMarketCap. Ethereum Classic is a hard fork of the Ethereum blockchain co-founded by Vitalik Buterin and Gavin Wood. While both Ethereum forks point to 2015 as their launch, the Ethereum blockchain was rolled back and relaunched in 2016 after the hack of...

by Jason Nelson · 2 min read

Aug 1, 2022

Coins

Prominent Chinese Ethereum Miner Wants to Resist Merge, Create Fork

As Ethereum takes its final steps toward the merge—the network’s much-hyped move to proof of stake—an influential crypto miner is looking to create a movement to resist that transition. Chandler Guo, a well-known Chinese crypto miner, has launched a campaign to fork the Ethereum blockchain and create a spinoff, proof-of-work version, according to a Twitter post last week. In Ethereum’s current proof-of-work model, so-called “miners” can generate ETH by directing huge amounts of computer power at...

by Sander Lutz · 3 min read

Jul 27, 2022

Coins

Ethereum Classic Jumps Double Digits After Antpool Adds $10M Backing

Ethereum Classic, a non-forked version of Ethereum, is enjoying a hefty rally early Wednesday morning. Following the infamous DAO hack of 2016, Ethereum split into two blockchains: Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, and Ethereum Classic. The newly created chain is the currently used Ethereum network, and the hacked chain continues to operate as Ethereum Classic. Importantly, the latter will not be merging to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism in Septem...

by Sujith Somraaj · 2 min read

Feb 7, 2022

The Coins

What Is Ethereum Classic?

Ethereum Classic is a smart contract platform and cryptocurrency. Ethereum Classic (ETC) shouldn’t be confused with Ethereum (ETH), even though they were the same until an argument led to divorce. Below we explore what led to the split. What is Ethereum Classic? Ethereum Classic is very similar to Ethereum because it shares a common origin. It's a blockchain that allows other applications to be built atop it. These decentralized applications, or dapps, use code known as smart contracts so that p...

by Ki Chong Tran, Jeff Benson · 5 min read

Aug 15, 2021

Coins

XRP and Ethereum Classic Rise 10% Amid Slight Market Decline

XRP and Ethereum Classic both blew up 10% today, despite a 0.52% drop in the global market capitalization of cryptocurrencies. XRP commands $59.13 billion of crypto’s $2.10 trillion global market cap, making it the seventh-largest cryptocurrency, according to data aggregator Nomics. It trades at a price of $1.27, having blown up 10.19% overnight. It peaked at $1.32 on Sunday, its highest price since May. XRP’s rally has been building momentum over the last few days. On Friday it posted a 6% inc...

by Tim Hakki · 2 min read

Jun 29, 2021

Markets

Ethereum Classic, Dfinity’s ICP Lead Rising Crypto Market

The wider cryptocurrency market continued to rise for a second straight day, with Ethereum Classic surging and Dfinity’s Internet Computer token again posting some of the largest gains. Ethereum Classic (ETC), the cryptocurrency that split from the larger Ethereum blockchain following the infamous The DAO hack in 2016, is up more than 31% over the last 24 hours, data from CoinGecko shows, to a current price of $57, with its seven-day price increase topping 41%. On Monday, Ethereum Classic develo...

by Andrew Hayward · 3 min read

Jun 21, 2021

Coins

Digital Currency Group Buying $50M of Ethereum Classic Grayscale Shares

Digital Currency Group (DCG) on Monday announced it would buy $50 million worth of ETCG—a stock owned by its subsidiary, Grayscale, that is a proxy for owning Ethereum Classic. "DCG plans to use cash on hand to fund the purchases and will make the purchases on the open market, at management’s discretion," said the company in a statement announcing the purchase. Grayscale is best known for its flagship product, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, which owns a massive amount of Bitcoin that it has packa...

by Jeff John Roberts · 3 min read

May 7, 2021

Coins

Ethereum Classic Grows 40% Overnight, Sets All-Time High

Barely a week after setting its former all-time high of $44.80, Ethereum Classic has more than trebled in value. At 7 pm yesterday, the coin set an ATH of $157.30. Though the price has since dipped to $142.18, Ethereum Classic has bulldozed its way into the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. At the start of the year, ETC was worth between $5 and $6. The coin has since steadily grown in value, but the bulk of its explosive price movement occurred over the past week. Today, the co...

by Tim Hakki · 3 min read

May 5, 2021

Coins

The Next Dogecoin? Traders Pump Ethereum Classic Price to Record High

Ethereum Classic’s price surged overnight, sending the token into uncharted territory. In the last week, it has demolished its April 15 high of $38.43, ascending all the way to $97.24 today, according to data from Nomics. But, depending on the exchange you use, you might be paying a lot more. On Coinbase, the price went as high as $149.75 before settling down into the $127 range—a full $35 more than on Binance and $12 more than on trading app Robinhood. While the large price discrepancy is lik...

by Jeff Benson · 4 min read