The ether price in reais with the time the quote was taken, a two-way converter, and what gas, staking and layer 2 do to this price.
Ethereum (ETH): R$ 12.851,98, +1,71%.
Ethereum is not primarily a currency: it is a computer that thousands of machines run copies of, and ether is what you pay to use it. Every operation — sending a token, swapping on an exchange, minting something — costs gas, priced in gwei, a billionth of an ether. Since August 2021 the base part of that fee is destroyed rather than paid to anyone, so heavy use shrinks the supply of ether while quiet weeks let it grow again. What to watch on this chart is demand for block space, not demand for a coin. Most of the stablecoins Brazilians use to send money abroad also circulate here.
In September 2022 Ethereum replaced mining with staking overnight, cutting its energy use by roughly 99% and the issuance of new ether with it. Validators now lock ether as collateral — 32 to run one alone, or any amount through a pool or an exchange — and earn a yield for confirming blocks; withdrawals have been possible since April 2023. That yield gives ether a comparison bitcoin escapes: set against interest rates in reais, a low single-digit staking return looks thin. The second structural change is layer 2 — since March 2024 most everyday activity has moved to cheaper networks that settle back to Ethereum: good for users and, by burning fewer fees on the main chain, ambiguous for the price.
The value at the top is a CoinGecko reference, an average across exchanges, stored by a job that runs every half hour, with the moment of the quote beside it. Your exchange will show a different number: its own spread, a trading fee, and another fee on withdrawal. Two risks here belong to Ethereum rather than to crypto in general. The code running on it can be wrong, and very large sums have been lost to flawed contracts and to bridges between networks; an attack on an early fund in 2016 split the chain in two. And staking through a third party turns a technical risk into a counterparty one.
From CoinGecko, which averages the price across many exchanges, saved here by a job that runs every 30 minutes; the date and time of that quote sit under the value. Press "Refresh rate" and your browser fetches the current one directly. Ether trades every day, so the number moves at weekends too.
Because this is an average reference, not an offer. An exchange quotes a buying and a selling price with a spread between them, charges a trading fee and charges again on withdrawal, so a gap of a couple of per cent is ordinary. The network gas fee is separate again: it is paid to the network when you move ether, not to the exchange.
Gas is the price of the work you ask the network to do, quoted in gwei. It rises when many people compete for the same block space, which is why one transfer costs cents and the next several reais. Since 2021 the base part is burned rather than paid out. Most people avoid the worst of it on a layer 2 network, where the same operation costs a fraction of the price.
It is a return with real risks attached, not a savings account. A validator that misbehaves or goes offline is penalised; ether staked through an exchange or a pool depends on that company holding up; and the yield is variable, in the low single digits, and falls as more people stake.
Bitcoin is designed to be scarce money and deliberately does little else. Ethereum is a programmable platform and ether is the fuel it charges for. So ether depends on the network being used, with a supply that is not fixed — it shrinks when the network is busy and grows when it is idle — while bitcoin's cap of 21 million never changes.
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