Ethereum Statistics 2026: Price, Staking, ETFs and Network Data

Ethereum’s market capitalization stood at $330.624 billion in early October 2026, according to CoinGecko. The ETH price traded at $2,725.91 on October 5, down from $4,487.71 one year earlier. That one-year move works out to a change of -39.26%, per YCharts, and it frames every other set of Ethereum statistics that follows.

Validator Queue’s network panel shows 43.7 million ETH staked (35.76%). SoSoValue puts US spot Ether ETF Total Net Assets at $17.46 billion. The figures below cover market data, on-chain activity, staking, ETFs, corporate treasuries, DeFi, stablecoins, layer 2 networks, nodes, developers, and protocol upgrades, each dated to its source.

Key Takeaways

• Validator Queue counts 866,944 active validators, and Pectra raises the maximum possible effective balance to 2,048 ETH, so one validator can now carry far more stake than before.
• CoinGecko tracks 34 institutions with a total holding of 8,029,768 ETH, representing 6.58% of Ethereum’s total supply.
• US spot Ether ETFs show a Cumulative Total Net Inflow of $13.80 billion, even though Grayscale’s ETHE carries a cumulative figure of -$5.44 billion.
• DefiLlama ranks Ethereum first with $54.075 billion in DeFi TVL, against $6.696 billion on Solana.
• Ethereum hosts $146.311 billion in stablecoins, an Ethereum Dominance of 47.64% of the stablecoin market, per DefiLlama.
• Average gas cost was 0.8029 Gwei on October 4, a change of -8.65% from one year ago, according to YCharts data sourced from Etherscan.
• The network processed 1.526 million transactions on October 4, a change of 9.79% from one year ago.

Editor’s Choice

• Market cap: $330.624 billion, with a 24 Hour Trading Vol of $13.408 billion (CoinGecko).
• All-time high: $4,946.05 per ETH (CoinGecko).
• Circulating supply: 122.108 million ETH.
• Staking APR: 2.61% across the network (Validator Queue).
• Largest spot ETF: BlackRock’s ETHA at $9.77 billion in net assets (SoSoValue).
• Lifetime transactions: 3.76 billion (Chainspect).
• Execution-layer nodes: 8,132 (ethernodes.org).

Ethereum Statistics: Market Cap and Price

• Ethereum’s Market Cap and Fully Diluted Valuation both read $330.624 billion, a Market Cap / FDV ratio of 1, per CoinGecko.
• ETH traded between $2,680.92 and $2,736.97 over 24 hours and between $2,652.36 and $2,768.44 over seven days.
• Total open interest in ETH perpetual futures stood at $47.456 billion (Perps 24h Open Interest), an OI / Market Cap ratio of 14.35%.
• The ETH price was $2,725.91 on October 5, up from $2,686.89 the day before, according to YCharts.
• ETH remains well below its All-Time High of $4,946.05, and far above its All-Time Low of $0.433.
• CoinGecko lists a Circulating Supply and Total Supply of 122.108 million, with Max Supply shown as ∞, because Ethereum has no hard supply cap.
• The Bitcoin vs Ethereum comparison tracks how this market value stacks up against the largest crypto asset.

Source: CoinGecko 2026, YCharts October 2026

About This Data

The figures come from 31 sources: 17 data dashboards, 7 Ethereum Foundation and ethereum.org pages, 6 company releases and fund pages, and 1 developer report. They span February 2024 to October 2026. Only primary publishers and named data platforms qualified, with live dashboards read on October 5, 2026. Figures are reviewed on a rolling basis and updated when sources publish new data.

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Ethereum Daily Transactions and Active Addresses

• Ethereum recorded 1.526 million transactions on October 4, down from 1.562 million the day before and up from 1.390 million one year ago, per YCharts data sourced from Etherscan.
• The busiest day in the sample below was September 25, when the network logged 2.113 million transactions.
• Daily active addresses stood at 457,836, down from 532,252 one year ago, a change of -13.98%.
• DefiLlama’s 24-hour view shows 386,651 active addresses, 115,865 new addresses, and 1.53 million transactions.
• Chainspect measured a one-hour TPS of 23.76 tx/s and a block time of 12 seconds, with a finality time of 12 minutes 48 seconds.
• More transactions from fewer active addresses point to heavier use per address rather than a wider user base, and the Ethereum vs Cardano activity data shows how that compares with a rival smart-contract chain.

How many transactions per second can Ethereum handle?

According to Chainspect, Ethereum’s base layer handled 23.76 tx/s over one hour, a Max TPS (100 blocks) of 74.91 tx/s, and a Theoretical TPS of 238.1 tx/s. Layer 2 networks add capacity on top, which is why L2BEAT reports an activity scaling factor well above one, covered in the layer 2 section below.

Recent Developments

• October 6, 2026: The Ethereum Foundation scheduled the Glamsterdam upgrade to activate on Sepolia at epoch 353,024, and Hoodi and mainnet activation dates have not yet been decided.
• September 28, 2026: SharpLink’s dashboard listed total ETH holdings of 892,534, updated weekly from company records.
• September 27, 2026: Bitmine reported 6,001,302 ETH at $2,698 per ETH, equal to 4.9% of the ETH supply (of 122.1 million ETH).
• September 20, 2026: Bitmine’s prior weekly update showed 5,983,940 ETH at $2,688 per ETH, so the company added 17,362 ETH in one week.
• October 2, 2026: US spot Ether ETFs posted a Daily Total Net Inflow of -$37.36 million, according to SoSoValue.
• October 2, 2026: iShares listed ETHA’s Net Assets of Fund at $9,794,984,561 and ETHB’s Net Assets of Fund at $1,176,139,266.

Ethereum Staking Statistics

• Validator Queue reports 43.7 million ETH staked (35.76%) across 866,944 active validators.
• The network-wide staking APR is 2.61%, a figure that moves with total stake and is not a fixed return.
• The exit queue holds 767,349 ETH with a wait of 13 days, 8 hours, and a Sweep Delay of 7.5 days.
• Both queues run at a Churn of 256/epoch.
• Under Pectra, a single validator can now stake between 32 ETH and 2,048 ETH.
• Bitmine alone reports 5,067,309 staked ETH, representing $13.7 billion at $2,698 per ETH.

Source: Validator Queue (beaconcha.in data), October 2026

Key finding: Validator Queue’s network panel lists 866,944 active validators against 43.7 million staked ETH. Split into 32 ETH units, that stake would fill about 1.37 million validators. The lower real count reflects consolidation into larger balances after Pectra, so validator numbers now understate how much ETH secures the chain.

Spot Ethereum ETF Statistics

• US spot Ether ETFs held Total Net Assets of $17.46 billion, or 5.37% of Ethereum Market Cap, as of Oct 2, per SoSoValue.
• The funds traded a total value of $1.05 billion that day.
• BlackRock’s ETHA leads with $13.27 billion in cumulative net inflow and $9.77 billion in net assets.
• Grayscale’s ETHE sits at -$5.44 billion in cumulative flows with $1.93 billion in net assets.
• BlackRock introduced the iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF (Nasdaq:ETHB) on March 12, 2026, and ETHB carries a 0.25% sponsor fee with a one-year waiver reducing the fee to 0.12% on the first $2.5 billion.
• At ETHB’s launch, BlackRock described ETHA as holding over $6.5 billion in assets, against $9.77 billion by October.
• Farside Investors’ flow table records a Maximum single-day total of 1,018.8 (US$ millions) across all funds.

Source: SoSoValue, October 2, 2026

By the numbers: SoSoValue data shows $13.80 billion of Cumulative Total Net Inflow into US spot Ether ETFs. Because Grayscale’s higher-fee ETHE has shrunk through outflows, the channel’s net growth comes from lower-fee newcomers led by BlackRock and Fidelity.

Ethereum Treasury Company Holdings

• CoinGecko tracks 34 institutions with a total holding of 8,029,768 ETH worth $21.7 billion, spread across 9 countries.
• Bitmine Immersion leads CoinGecko’s ranking with 6,016,414 ETH, or 4.927% of the total ETH supply.
• CoinGecko lists SharpLink at 868,699 ETH, below the 892,534 ETH on SharpLink’s own September 28 dashboard.
• The Ether Machine holds 496,712 ETH, Bit Digital 158,461 ETH, and Coinbase Global 150,193 ETH.
• Bitmine’s own release puts its ETH at 4.9% of the ETH supply (of 122.1 million ETH).
• Bitmine’s CoinGecko balance is about 3.6x the next four companies combined. Treasury buyers and ETF issuers now draw on the same float, and one company sets the pace for the corporate side.

Ethereum DeFi TVL Statistics

• DefiLlama ranks Ethereum first with 2,052 protocols and $54.075 billion in DeFi TVL.
• Ethereum’s TVL changed +10.18% over one month, while its Bridged TVL reached $405.581 billion.
• Ethereum’s DeFi TVL is about 8.1x Solana’s, the second-ranked chain.
• DEX activity on Ethereum reached $790.12 million in 24-hour volume and $9.057 billion over seven days, and perpetuals added $440.87 million in 24-hour volume.
• Tokenized real-world assets on Ethereum show RWA Active AUM of $13.976 billion.
• DefiLlama also records the original fundraising: Total Raised $18.4 million on Jul 12, 2014, Round: ICO.
• Protocol-level exchange volume is broken out in the Uniswap protocol data.

Why it matters: DefiLlama’s chain rankings put $54.075 billion of DeFi TVL on Ethereum against $6.412 billion on Base, the largest Ethereum layer 2. Liquidity still settles on mainnet even as cheaper rollups win transaction volume, so the base layer keeps its role as the place where large balances sit.

Stablecoins on Ethereum

• DefiLlama counts $146.311 billion of stablecoins on Ethereum, out of a Total Stablecoins Market Cap of $307.108 billion.
• That gives Ethereum a Dominance of 47.64% in stablecoin supply.
• Tether’s USDT is the dominant token on Ethereum at 50.26% of the chain’s stablecoin supply.
• Tron ranks second with $94.785 billion, and USDT at 97.78% of its supply.
• Solana carries $16.586 billion and BSC $13.304 billion.
• Total stablecoin market cap moved 0.21% over seven days, so the ranking above reflects a stable market, not a sudden shift. Broader adoption trends sit in the stablecoin usage statistics.

Ethereum Layer 2 Statistics

• L2BEAT values Base at $16.28 billion in total value secured, ahead of Arbitrum One at $11.51 billion.
• OP Mainnet follows at $1.98 billion, Mantle at $1.47 billion, and Lighter at $1.25 billion.
• Base and Arbitrum One together secure $27.79 billion.
• L2BEAT’s activity view shows a scaling factor of 69.68x as of October 5, 2026.
• Lighter ranked first in L2BEAT’s activity table with past-day activity of 672.84 UOPS, while Base Chain processed 79.44 UOPS.
• Ethereum mainnet itself ran at 18.22 UOPS with a 57.57 million 30-day count.

Worth noting: L2BEAT’s scaling factor of 69.68x compares rollup activity with mainnet activity. Total value secured includes bridged and natively minted tokens, so it is not directly comparable with DefiLlama’s DeFi TVL for the same chains, and the two measures should be read side by side rather than summed.

Ethereum Gas Fees and Network Fees

• The average gas price was 0.8029 Gwei on October 4, up from 0.6738 the day before and down from 0.8789 one year ago, per YCharts data sourced from Etherscan.
• Gas spiked to 2.348 Gwei on September 24 and 2.298 on September 28, the two highest readings in the sample below.
• Ethereum collected $424,194 in Chain Fees (24h) and $96,134 in Chain Revenue (24h), per DefiLlama.
• Applications built on Ethereum earned far more than the chain itself, with App Fees (24h) of $5.88 million and App Revenue (24h) of $1.22 million.
• Sub-1 Gwei gas means a simple transfer costs cents, which shifts the fee debate from user costs to whether low fees still fund the network. Longer fee history sits in the Ethereum gas fee data.

Ethereum Node and Client Statistics

• ethernodes.org counts 8,132 execution-layer client nodes on mainnet.
• Geth runs on 3,248 nodes (39.94%) and Nethermind on 2,753 (33.85%).
• Reth ran on 1,123 nodes (13.81%), ahead of Besu at 563 (6.92%).
• No execution client holds a majority of nodes, but Geth still sits above one-third, the level at which a single client bug could disrupt finality.

Geth’s full name is go-ethereum, so the Geth and go-ethereum rows describe the same client. ethernodes.org reports the two names separately, and the table keeps its split rather than merging the figures.

The node map shows the same concentration by country:

• The United States hosts 2,445 nodes (30.08%) of the 8,129 counted by country.
• Germany follows with 1,120 (13.78%), and the United Kingdom with 359 (4.42%).

Source: ethernodes.org, October 2026

Ethereum Developer Statistics

• Electric Capital’s Developer Report counts 13,752 total developers in the Ethereum ecosystem.
• The report’s summary rounds Ethereum to Full-time devs: 5,600 and Monthly active devs: 14,000.
• Ethereum projects span 244,000 total repos and 36 million total commits.
• The report’s data runs to 2026-09-28, so these counts reflect late September activity.

Source: Electric Capital Developer Report, September 2026

Ethereum Network Upgrades and Energy Use

• Dencun was scheduled to activate on the Ethereum mainnet at epoch 269,568 on March 13, 2024.
• Pectra was scheduled to activate on the Ethereum mainnet on May 7, 2025, at epoch 364,032.
• Fusaka went live on December 3, 2025, and its PeerDAS design leaves each full node holding only 1/8 of the data, enabling theoretical scale up to 8x.
• Per the Ethereum Foundation’s Glamsterdam testnet announcement, Glamsterdam is scheduled to activate on Sepolia at epoch 353,024, slot 11,296,768 (October 6, 2026, 13:53:36 UTC), and its headlining changes are enshrined proposer-builder separation (ePBS) and block-level access lists (BALs).
• Ethereum’s energy consumption is approximately ~0.0026 TWh/yr, or 2,601 MWh a year with 870 tonnes CO2e of emissions, per the CCRI estimate cited by ethereum.org.
• CCRI estimates The Merge reduced Ethereum’s annualized electricity consumption by more than 99.988%. The Ethereum energy consumption statistics cover the pre-Merge baseline in depth.

Does Ethereum have a future?

Ethereum’s roadmap is still shipping: the Ethereum Foundation scheduled Glamsterdam to activate on Sepolia on October 6, 2026, after Fusaka went live on December 3, 2025. Electric Capital counts 13,752 developers in the ecosystem, and the 34 institutions tracked by CoinGecko hold 8,029,768 ETH in treasuries.

None of that guarantees price performance or adoption, but by developer activity, upgrade cadence, and institutional holdings, the network shows no sign of being abandoned.

Is Ethereum a good long-term investment?

SQ Magazine does not give investment advice, and no data set can answer that question for an individual. The record shows ETH reached an All-Time High of $4,946.05 and later fell, with YCharts showing a change of -39.26% from one year ago as of October 5, 2026.

Swings of that size are normal for ETH, so any long-term view has to account for deep drawdowns as well as network growth.

Conclusion

Ethereum enters the last quarter of 2026 with a $330.624 billion market cap and 43.7 million ETH staked. US spot ETFs and institutional treasuries give investors two large channels into ETH.

The next data points to watch are Glamsterdam’s mainnet date, whether ETF flows turn positive again after early October’s outflows, and how the active validator count moves as stake changes. Wider market context lies in the cryptocurrency adoption statistics.