Ether hit a new record of $2,017.01, before settling back to $2009.59, up 5.44% in the last 24 hours with the market capitalization of the crypto hitting $230.7 billion
Ether has surged past $2,000 as the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain continues its year-long bull run.
According to the CoinDesk 20,ether (ETH, +5.03%) hit a new record of $2,033.08, up 6.18% in the last 24 hours, with the market capitalization of the crypto reaching $233.3 billion. The cryptocurrency is up 172.5% year-to-dat
While ether hitting $2,000 would normally be a stop-the-presses-type event, it almost certainly will be overshadowed by the numerous milestones reached hours before by larger sibling bitcoin (BTC, +7.23%) including hitting a $1 trillion market value for the first time and rising almost $5,000 in a 24-hour periode.riod
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