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Ethereums performance today is quite impressive!  + 26%!  surpassing AMD, Blackrock, Square and American Express when compared by Market Cap.

 Full list: https://8marketcap.com/

It's not a big surprise considering a bunch of platforms are using ethereum as its parent chain to be used for the development purpose. Remember ethereum chain is flexible and it can be used by the developers to be integrated with its service easily.
I do believe if ethereum has more potential to touch another ATH for its MCAP and price for each ethereum coin.

Ethereum performance is very good right now and it's still showing the possibility to get another uptrend.

Here is the price chart of the ethereum in the past 24 hours:
https://i.ibb.co/pn0Bgzy/coindesk-ETH-chart-2021-01-16.png
(Image courtesy of coindesk (https://www.coindesk.com/price/ethereum))

Ethereum was also among the top performing cryptocurrencies in the previous trading week as well and has good chances to break to new record levels soon. But I don't exactly see +26% as you said. How did you calculate it?

Ethereum's moves in the last 24 have been impressive. The price increase which reached +26% (as the OP said) proves that Ethereum is the second coin that has a bright future after Bitcoin. If this increase continues, Ethereum will hit a new ATH in the next few weeks.

This is natural for ethereum because ethereum's position must be in that position, seeing that ethereum's potential is enormous to be in the top position. So I think the value of + 26% is very little for ethereum, because the minimum limit should be 50% in my opinion

I think there is a mistake here, although the price of Ethereum is increasing today, but the increase is not 26% like what you said (on coinmarketcap the increase in Ethereum for today is only 7.67%), so I think you might be wrong about the price increase from Ethereum today (the increase in the price of Ethereum was only around 7% and not 26%), although I'm sure if the price of Ethereum will definitely increase very high in the near future, but for today the price of Ethereum hasn't risen very high like you said.

Yea today seem different but still Ethereum need to break it's 2017 all time high, it's annoying and undervalued for Ethereum to still be around 1250$ to 1300$ when bitcoin is over 30,000$, also the high gas fee is affecting Ethereum and some are turning away from the blockchain right now, if that's not fixed more people can leave ETH behind

It seems to me that Ethereum has a brighter future than the likes of litecoin etc. Quite simply I think there is a lot of upside still to be had in terms of other coins and new coins still to come that use Ether.
If there should be a realisitic new alternative to Ether (more effective or cheaper) thats when i could see the price performance start to flag.
For now though I think we are on the up side.

If we are looking on the it, both of the site you mentioned (8marketcap and coinmarketcap) have the same percentage in increase, its just the time interval when you look at it. Right now, its just 3.27%, different from the 26% and 7.67% you both have mentioned.
Ergo, the 26% increase that he stated is true, also 7.67% increase is also true. Just difference in time when you look at it in the market.

It is still way undervalued when we consider the market dynamics, also just like btc took some time before breaking its previous highs the same is eth going through now but once it breaks its previous highs the price can quickly double just like what btc did.

I fully agree, the ether has grown great, I think this is due to the fact that there is already more money in other coins that are on the Ethereum platform than in money in bitcoin)

Eth is near the all time high. I think it will pass all time high price really soon and the go up fast like BTC did after breaking 20k. I think the place where ETH will stop is near 2k. For me it is reasonable price to be.

How about eos or bnb or trx, its more effective and cheaper. For me, Ethereum is have many problem as blockchain technology. But If ETH 2.0 can solve the problem, no doubt ETH Price will increase really high.

We can say that this year can be ETH year, that is why ETH is getting really good and it seems this will not stop in the near future. If you realize that when BTC starts growing, ETH would start also. It is not late to collect some ETH for long-term investing, in my humble opinion ETH will get a higher price than the current price in the future. Eth has the future as the main altcoin but the market performance is still questionable under the BTC dominance. The down on market will squeeze the ETH and the price can touch the $190 in the next year. Just my 2 cents.

Btc is still looking for the best rate to stabilize its price. The up and down will be still happening with bitcoin and ethereum. Ethereum shows if it's still having a small power to defend its rate from bitcoin's impact.
Ethereum has been showing very good performance since bitcoin has pumped by the whales and institutional investors.
It looks like ethereum will be stable at 1k - 1200 range. The domination of bitcoin is very strong in crypto market.

indeed, i also believe this positive performance will continues and give a good return to all people who hold and believe with ethereum my friend
because seems this year we will see another golden year of crypto especially on bitcoin and ethereum price

Ethereum keeps making impressive remarks when it comes to market price movement. Trader can actually earn a lot of it due to its high volatility. The current market of having 1K$ it just the result that eth is really  a good crypto to hold may it be for long term or short term. If bitcoin will no longer interest the crypto users then we probably eth will be the next crypto to cater digital currency. This is my expectation with ETH. Well, we do not know the future so we will just observe what will going to happen next.

Besides, we are surpassing the last Bullrun and that simply will think that more price increase will be the next possible to happen. The current market performance of Ethereum is not really surprising, in fact, many speculations rise before that we even reach at $2k, $5k. This couldn't be possible but the question is how long we have to wait for this or we are able to wait for that.
ETH keeps soaring, some altcoins did the same but somehow, we can see that many altcoins are still lying dead.

I agree that Ethereum's performance is getting better these days, as in a few days the ATH price can be reached. It is not wrong to invest
in Ethereum, I am very happy to be able to get huge profits by investing in Ethereum. I bought Ethereum when the Ethereum price was still
at $ 300. I didn't even think that the price of Ethereum could go up this far. Hopefully the Ethereum price can continue to rise until the end of
this year. It is not wrong that Ethereum is called the king of altcoins.

Havent seen the ethereum reached its ATH upon having the alt season still gives me confident that it hasn't reached it fullest this season which means that ethereum will still goes upward until it makes and surpasses its new all time high.

ATH is really close though it's just $140 away but Imagine if the problem about ethereum regarding the fee already resolved long ago, people wouldn't move temporarily to other alt which means the money is staying on ethereum, we've probably reached the ATH long time ago and goes beyond that ATH.
But, at this point and seeing how close the ATH it's just matter of time until ethereum reached tha but then again the fee problem will only get worse as ethereum price moving up because its gonna double the fee cost again.

I do believe it can be surpassed as soon as possible and ethereum needs only a hundred dollars more and it will able to create another record again to replace the old history that ever been achieved by ethereum.
We will see what will be happening in the future but it seems like people are starting to pump it again soon.
This will be going to be a very big thing for sure.

it is possible to have it again because most altcoins currently have very good potential for long-term or short-term investments. so many things will happen in the future. I also believe that ETH will be a springboard for most investors.

Ethereum promises great prospects for its investors! I am sure that developers will find a way to solve the problem with scaling and the ability to pay less for commissions as soon as possible. In my opinion, these are the two main problems that hinder Ethereum's reputation.

I am not surprised by the performance of Ethereum, I think that as the success of eth 2.0 increases investors' confidence in ETH, I am sure that eth will continue to improve its performance as a very valuable coin in the future.

We will see that. People are still accumulating more and more ethereum. We are not seeing the result from the ethereum 2.0 and we will see that will be fully implemented next year.
I have bought a lot of ethereum Q1 last year and this time wanna try to accumulate more and more ethereum before the institutional investors will be also joining in ethereum like bitcoin.
Ethereum is really promising at this moment.

Excellent performance, very much potential coin, Ethereum performance is very good right now and it's still showing the possibility to get another uptrend. it gave surprising feedback for all investors, people say it could be next bitcoin.

Currently, the problem faced by ethereum is that the gas transaction fee is high enough that many people end up switching to other transactions if they calculate that they are losing money. I myself experienced this where sending tokens with an estimated 50 $ and a fee that I have to pay almost 15 $ this is a quite high transaction feenya

Ethereum's performance is not impressive with a drastic increase, even many platforms that use ethereum have now gained more trust from the buying and selling market, I am sure that ethereum remains the number 1 altcoin in the future which has high loyalty and is increasingly in demand

Ethereum really is performing really well right now. Going for a new ATH after new ATH. Volumes sure do rise up a lot coz of this massive upside of ETH (https://trade.kucoin.com/ETH-BTC) market. Gotta hold them besides BTC. DeFi sure made a lot of impact in this matter too. ETH is a good altcoin to hold and trade right now. Do it!

Don't mix the name Bitcoin with Ethereum because they are basically not the same even though when the pump often goes up simultaneously, because it would be ridiculous if you say Ethereum is the next Bitcoin, because in the past this kind of thing has happened too, but nobody said that Ethereum is the next Bitcoin. ;D ;D

It's look overdue, I think ETH by now should be in the $2k region as bitcoin has broken $40k barrier already. The current spike though was due to MicroStrategy's latest investing on ETH as well, so it was well taken news that's why the price just surpasses another all time high.

So there's no surprises here, at least in my case, this should happen last year. But we are all good, so $2k will be the next obvious target for ETH and it's just a matter of time before it can breach it. And with regards to the Market Cap, not a fan of it though, good to compare with other companies but crypto is very different though, it is very much volatile.

Ethereum is on the run for 2K now and also total volume getting near to the rate of bitcoin which is happy news for the ethereum holders. But the scalability issues on the ethereum blockchain messing up with the fees so people are paying huge part as fee which is not the case with other coins so holders can be happy while traders may switch to other coins due to loss of profits.

i didnt knew the other companies but amd and american express seriously ? got beaten by just only a mere cryptocurrency but this was only a beggining for eth because im sure that theres more to cum when the true adoption for crypto came in and usually the one that will be beaten off is american express because it was a payment processor and older payment processors are going to be irrelevant soon but amd , theres always a demand for computers as we move on in the future .

Regarding the price issue, ethereum is currently very high, the current price has reached its current level ATH until now the ethereum price continues to rise unstoppably, but unfortunately, it also applies to gas fees, which are very expensive, making many people think again about sending on the platform ethereum due to the high cost of gas which is currently so high.

Honestly, I got mad seeing the fees continue to rise together with the price. For this situation, miners are taking more benefits from this, not traders or even some holders. I'd never expected the situation to be going like this, I supposed to like ETH keeping at low where fees are very small, but for now, that seems to regret.

Choosing ETH as for investment this time would be not the top priority. Traders are smart enough to consider fees as a big factor that might bring ETH out of it.

perfotma eth is starting to convince now, I still believe eth will be able to be in the $ 20k position. many ask when eth has increased? the answer is now eth is over the price of $ 1600 and this proves if eth has provided the answers to everyone's questions

yes, I think everyone has got the answer. but this market has survived quite well with a stable pump state for quite some time. keep watch for any corrections. we all don't need to panic, we just have to be vigilant if we don't want to get caught up in an investment. We've seen Ethereum so high then falling. and this year we see it at its peak again. we should already know what kind of attitude and choice to make.

when the full system from ethereum 2.0 is running $ 2k I don't think it is a difficult problem. now is the beginning, but the problem is how this market can last longer. we have seen how the market rises then collapses. I hope this time the market will be stronger for a long time.

Speed ​​performance is a factor that can be adjusted, and by the time Ethereum 2.0 returns, the value of ETH will not be difficult to reach $ 4.5k. I believe in the success of Ethereum 2.0 even though the trend of rejuvenation and interchangeability, multi-purpose like DOT is creating an explosive trend.

Ethereum does really performs well right now, $1700 is not that far in fact we are in a couple of steps in there, a little bit more push and we will definitely break it. What I am imagining is that if ETH is going insane right now and what if ETH 2.0 is now fully running we could experience more growth with that. However, due to this pump, the fees are also being a pain in the ass and I can barely make any transaction. Pretty sure Eth could break $1700 really fast if they want to but I think the gas is the one that holds it because it is really expensive.

20k? i guess you need a glass of coffee and it doesn't even reach 2k and how is it possible to reach 20k?
You are mistyping it dude.

This time so many people got mad due to the non sense fees on ethereum network. 2k could be the maximum price that could be reached by ethereum this year,
It can grow even higher but it's quite difficult to be achieved consider the date for the ethereum 2.0 is not yet published.

These days people are also hyping the smartcontract project.

Since bitcoin isn't backing down any time soon it's easy for Ethereum to grow over 1800$ very soon, I only plan to hold the little ETH I have in my wallet, it's too risky to buy right now even if things still looks good for both bitcoin and ethereum, I'd rather buy low rank coins right now because it's not a good time to buy top coins, it's the time to start taking profits

Its quite amazing to see ethereum pumping steadily with some minor corrections and pullbacks I just analyzed ETH/USD chart now Its quite a remarkable growth from $716 in January to $1600+ within a month shows that bullish runs is not going to subside for now the price will surely reached $1700 in no distant future there are instances when BTC is undergoing a minor correction whereas ethereum will the other way round pumps, congratulations to hodlers of the coin who believed in the project definitely they will reap more rewards for hodling it in a long term.

Ethereum performance does not need us to doubt because Ethereum is the best Coin of all time after Bitcoin. and Ethereum is headed for Ethereum 2.0 which is sure to surprise future Ethereum holders. but now what needs to be improved is regarding transaction fees that are considered too large by users. I hope that in the future the transaction fees will return to normal as before

With the momentum and stability eth is showing going up i think it has high potential to lead the bull market in coming months and i see big gains to be made in eth alone.

lying dead ???  There must be a reason why the project is running in place, usually a dead project is no further development action, dev lazy to develop it, an eth effect that doesn't go up and gives surprises, and when a surprise comes they are not focused on development

Currently ETHER position is stable,On the off chance that you inquire why, it demonstrated to me that it isn't an altcoin. Presently, BTC does not respond cruelly to its rises and falls and keeps up its position by not compromising itself.I believe too accept this positive execution will proceeds and allow a great return to all individuals who hold and accept with ethereum my friend because seems this year we'll see another brilliant year of crypto particularly on bitcoin and ethereum cost

It is stable in the manner of having a better price. But with its transaction fees, many are not happy with it. The combination of Defi apps and the high transaction fees/gwei of it makes it worthier.
And I think without such, it wouldn't hit the all-time high of $1,600. What's done is done and it's already soaring with bitcoin and everyone who sees it and compares it since last year is happy about it.

It is not quite impressive, it is truly impressive. Ethereum price looks increasing very well, it already achieved a new ATH and then achieved again another new ATH. We all know that many people are holding Ethereum but the price is always improving day after day in the current season. If you have money/funds, Ethereum should be always the right coin to invest in. But now, it is the right time to sell your Ethereum if you already hold it for years. Especially if you bought in the end of 2018, now is a perfect time to sell.

All of Defi is based on the Ethereum Blockchain. And it hasn't even started yet. Wait until Institutional investors start staking Ethereum directly. That's Billions. And that's what Coinbase is gearing up for.
CME-Chicago Mercantile Exchange, they announced in december they will launch a futures contract on ethereum. I dont really know what that means. But this same event happened with bitcoin back in late 2017 and pushed it to 20,000. So something similar could happen with ether on feb 8.
This coin will raise very high in short time

The possibility of ethereum to create a higher value than it is now is very likely, especially if ethereum can improve itself immediately to lower
costs to low, it will make ethereum’s performance as a smart contract for crypto projects will be more popular and many fans.  Although  now
ethereum smart contracts are still the no1, among other smart contracts.

Don't be surprised buddy! The price of Ethereum has increased by 26% and has climbed to reach a new all time high because Ethereum is one of the best future technologies owned by the world, Ethereum's market cap is below Bitcoin and I am sure that it will continue to crawl far into the future, investing in Ethereum is truly very profitable especially in their ecosystem they are like Defi.

If only their fee aren't so ridiculous you need to pay for hundred dollars for a damn transaction then they would have performed even better but nah, small fries are holding and not moving their eth or token anytime soon and that means lesser trading volume but I guess the bagholding also gives contribution to ETH performance right now. If we want to see an even better performance of ETH we need to get the fee problem sorted out for real.

Ethererum has become the playground of the whales and big institutions, if you are a small-time trader who can only trade with $100 or less you cannot keep up with the $10 to $20 transaction fee, your profit will be eaten up by the network fee, gone are the days when Ethereum is the preferred platform, it's a big leap from $0.20 cents to $15 or even more, how long can this keep up? Small traders are losing a patient.

Ethereum surpassed loads of altcoins from its recent new Highs which IMO is a good thing, its just showing on why you shouldnt miss this Major cryptocurrency for the other altcoins. Its gonna be surpassing its new ATH really soon for sure, investors will be piling up even more. I do hodl it, the problem on it is just that it has really high fees . DeFis are soaring high too  :D

Ethereum will reach new heights this year, because the next stage of Ethereum 2.0 is expected to be released and, of course, more and more people are starting to come into the cryptocurrency sphere and these people are investing in Ethereum, I also personally see how many new cryptocurrency projects have appeared recently and most of these projects create their cryptocurrencies on the Ethereum blockchain and this also develops and propels Ethereum to new heights.

It seems to me that Ethereum has a brighter future than the likes of litecoin etc. It is still way undervalued when we consider the market dynamics, also just like btc took some time before breaking its previous ATH . ETH is getting really good and it seems this will not stop in the near future.

I think that Ethereum's performance is much, much better than many other projects.
However, the main problem in my opinion is scalability. Look at the performance of half a cadot, doesn't it look like anything?

ETH is good in many aspects. The only problem is the high gas fees. That fee's will actually drain your earnings.

There have been talks of improving the blockchain through gradual progression to POS. But the ultimate putdown on Ethereum more than the speed is fees, specially when you are interacting with a token. Like Tron energy, Ethereum needs to address this probem by implementing some ways to make tokens transaction gas free. Till than, new projects and people would keep on moving to competitive platform while Ethereum remains a manipulative coin.

you'll need to wait until about 2024 before they can address the fee issue (Phase 2 ETH2). the only ETH competitor that matters is BSC, and it's a huge problem for them

You don't have to wait until 2024. The problem of high transaction fees on the ethereum network should be resolved in a few months, namely in July. In addition, the Ethereum 2.0 improvements have been calculated to be implemented over a two-year period. However, Buterin recently announced that the overall renewal period for the ethereum network is shortening. So the update should end next year.
However, there is a problem with high fees and it is because of this that the growth of the ethereum price is still relatively slow. I hope the situation will improve a lot by the fall.

ETH Foundation approximation for ETH2 Phase2 is late 2022. they have missed every deadline they've set by at least a year, why would this be different?

what makes you think the high fees will be resolved in July? EIP 1559 does not reduce transaction fees, it burns them. ETH would need to reduce fees by 10000% to compete with BSC. you need ETH2 Phase2 for that.

Not really surprising that crypto has big oscilations. Some coins go 50% up and down almost every day.
If a coin goes from 1 sat to 2 sat, that's 100%. So the actual price should be also a variable to consider

And ever since, ETH had a name already and it is one of the most potentials altcoins in the crypto market. I'd never compared it to the stock market as it never makes sense to me.

It may be OP had forgotten the volatility of the market and it moves freely depending on the market demand and supply. And for the fact that the crypto market is more volatile than the stock market, don't we need to get a surprise, were very often see that every time.

As I am into ethereum mining, let me put my perspective this way: ETH mining will end one day, it will be proof of stake and we know that miners will move to something else, it could be ETC, it could be something else, but every miner will turn to something else, and maybe, and this is just a maybe, maybe someone will make a profit from starting now and when all other miners come into play and start mining that one, the price of that coin will go up?

In that case I believe someone who starts now and holds until that moments come, could make a lot of profit. If I mine x amount of coin and hold it, the worth will be 10x of it when all miners move here, that is probably the idea they have.

I know and everybody know ethereum is the second safest network after btc and this is not surprise for me at all. But if you compare the transactions fees to other blockchain ethereum is insane. Ethereum developer need to rush to deploy ethereum 2.0 and reduce the fees. Or it can not scale.

If it is about security, maybe there are other alternatives that are also good, but if you look at the market cap, everyone will not be able to deny that Ethereum is still the best to date. the only problem that occurs is the cost which is still the discussion and complaint of many people.
it is not impossible if there will be no change, Dev will look for other alternatives to reduce low costs. at this time many new projects have also tried to find other alternatives and many have done that.

ethereum must not be able to underestimate this because if all Devs try to find cheaper alternative costs, it is not impossible that ethereum will be affected by the coin that replaces it. although it is not easy because of the habitual factor that has occurred, patience can make people look for and keep trying.

Unfortunately, currently the case from ethereum regarding transactions with high fees has been able to be resolved with the existence of BNB. Even though in the current ecosystem Ethereum is quite strong and the existence of Uniswap as a trade has contributed to creating hype on the ethereum platform. This year is a golden year for BNB which is able to give surprises in terms of price and performance which is enough to make holders get high profits

as developer work on plan with the chance as manufacturing product and service with the occupation also of the blockchain network with ethereum, with the future terms of entrance investors might finds also more of offers with the different token to work on plan with the crypto trading of the finance.

If the gas fee of Ethereum will not be change in the future I think this will be the beginning of falling of ETHEREUM.
Because while the price gas fee was too expensive the BSC at the moment are taking advantage of it to accept new projects to
use their own blockchain for the utility token. Because they have a very cheap transaction payment for it.

Indeed, but we don't need to wait for the final deployment of Ethereum 2.0 as there will an hardfork for EIP1559 (Ethereum Improvement Proposal 1559) which might solve the current high gas fee problem by replacing the auction fee system into burning fee system. Though some researchers said that EIP1559 might not effect on that, even the block size is increased. So, lets wait for the hardfork to get the result and hoping to see lower transection fee after that hardfork.

It is only just the fees we mostly don't like ETH this time but other than that, it is much more appreciated.
ETH holders are in a huge profit, and surely they are. The price becomes stable and even we complain about huge fees and many investors are investing other altcoins but there is no effect on its price, instead, we even see that it move higher.

I was expecting ETH will keep on moving high together with Bitcoin. However, it might not surprise us one day that the market just drops, we just need to anticipate it.

Recently, Buterin said that EIP1559 will solve the problem of high transaction fees on the ethereum network, and that the overall network upgrade time under Ethereum 2.0 is shortening. It seems to me that his words can be trusted. Another thing is that it is not always possible to foresee the various difficulties that arise in this case. This is not surprising, because cryptocurrency is a completely new phenomenon.
Ethereum has surpassed $ 2,500 today, which is a testament to the fact that the coin is still trusted.