#EthereumFuture Ethereum today: the quote as of April 25
The cryptocurrency is priced at US$1816.93; this price shows a variation of 2.7% from the value over the last 24 hours.
Ethereum (ETH) is priced today, April 25, at US$1816.93 (ARS $2,180,314), according to the virtual wallet Lemon.
This price positions it 2.7% higher than its value 24 hours ago and 14.54% compared to the same day last week.
The current market capitalization (market quote) of the token is US$214,100,321,430.
Ethereum is a decentralized open-source platform that runs on its own blockchain and allows each developer to program new types of applications. Many define Ethereum as a digital supercomputer where any user can run applications developed by programmers from all over the world.
The crypto asset, created by the young Russian raised in Canada Vitalik Buterin in 2015 under blockchain technology, stood out from the beginning for being the first to include programmable smart contracts in its blocks.
In 2018, Ethereum was a provisional project. Today it is the second largest crypto asset by market capitalization and one of the most used blockchains for DeFi (Decentralized Finance) and NFTs (unique and non-reproducible digital assets, increasingly used for digital artwork).
Ethereum created the ERC-20 network, a blockchain with embedded smart contracts under the Singularity programming language where new projects that need to utilize its vast computing power and interoperability are built.
Crypto winter
In a context of global economic crisis, with unprecedented inflation rates in the United States and Europe, and a war between Russia and Ukraine that no one knows when - or how - it will end, cryptocurrencies are experiencing one of their worst moments. Specialists say this crypto winter could last up to a year and a half.