What is confirmed: late on Thursday evening, October 29, 2026, Ethereum costs around $2,272, 3.6 percent less than 24 hours earlier, leaving it 15.4 percent below its level on October 1. Bitcoin lost 5.6 percent over the same period. Our assessment follows further down: for an ETH holder the more important number is not the dollar price but the ratio between the two prices, and that now stands at 0.0288.
All price figures in this article come from CoinGecko, as of shortly before midnight on October 29, 2026. Where the price may head over a horizon of months is covered in our Ethereum price prediction.
Ethereum price falls 15.4 percent in October, bitcoin only 5.6 percent
On October 1 Ethereum stood at $2,684.71. The month's highest daily level followed on October 5 at $2,725.91. Since then it has gone downhill, with a daily low of $2,243.10 in the night to October 30. From the start of the month to now, that adds up to a loss of 15.4 percent.
Bitcoin had a different month: $83,576 on October 1, $78,872 now, with its high also on October 5 at $86,490. That is a loss of 5.6 percent. The gap between the two amounts to 9...
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