ETH Is Giving Its Investors Reasons to Boast After Hitting $1,439.33

Ether has been doing new stunts lately as it scaled to new all-time high yesterday, the 19th of January, 2021. The price of one ETH hit $1,439.33 at about 1:00pm yesterday as the native coin of the Ethereum blockchain scaled by a handsome 12% to hit this new ATH mark.

Although bitcoin still sits as the largest crypto according to market capitalization, ether follows its heels closely when it comes to hitting new ATHs. ETH has even scaled past the leading crypto (in price action) with a 92% increase in price in the last one year. At press time, ETH has surpassed its 2015 initial Public Sale by a whopping 1000.

Ethereum, which was co-founded by Vitalik Buterin, is a global decentralized blockchain that enables novel applications. It particularly scales decentralized applications which run like ordinary Apps but with added perks of blockchain technology like censorship resistance.

Ethereum is popularly known for decentralized finance- DeFi. DeFi currently boasts of over $22 billion in total value locked in its utilization. Although DeFi Apps are usually built on the Ethereum blockchain, they have their own tokens apart from the ether.

As promised, on the first of December 2020, the Ethereum developers released the much awaited novel blockchain dubbed the Beacon Chain,  which substituted the former proof of work consensus algorithm with the new proof of stake consensus algorithm.