FortuneJoseph Hostetler
Current price of Ethereum for November 2, 2026
At 6:30 a.m. Eastern Time today, the price of Ethereum (1 ETH) is $2,281.82. That marks a $15.33 increase from yesterday morning—and approximately a $1,624 fall compared with one year ago.
Ethereum is the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, currently valued at around $233 billion.
It’s well behind Bitcoin’s roughly $1.33 trillion market cap—but far ahead of the third largest option, Tether, at $183 billion.
Here’s a stark difference between Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies: It’s not just digital money. It’s actually a decentralized computing platform, meaning users can build and run apps on it without the oversight of any company or bank.
In short, developers build apps on Ethereum’s blockchain network (instead of, say,Amazonor Google servers), to do things…
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