Cryptoext publishes an ethereum price guide that explains the drivers instead of predicting them

With ether trading near $1,775 in early July 2026, around 64 percent below its August 2025 record, the crypto publication Cryptoext has released an investor guide that sets out the forces behind the ethereum price rather than forecasting where it goes next.

Ether reached its all-time high just under $4,950 on 25 August 2025. It has traded far below that level for most of the period since, and the first half of 2026 brought a broad crypto downturn that pulled the second-largest digital asset back toward the $1,700 range.

Interest in the price has not fallen with it. Search demand for the term stays high through drawdowns, but the results are dominated by forecasts, some extending to 2040, that tell readers what a model expects and almost nothing about why the number moves.

Cryptoext's new guide takes the opposite approach. What drives the ethereum price explains where the quoted figure comes from, why trackers disagree on the record high by a few dollars, and which forces set the price day to day: the fee burn introduced in 2021, issuance to validators under proof of stake, the share of supply locked in staking contracts, spot ETF flows, and positioning in crypto derivatives that turns ordinary pullbacks into liquidation cascades.

The guide also states the case against ether in the same document. It cites the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's warning that crypto assets are volatile and speculative, and research from the Bank for International Settlements finding that a majority of retail users in nearly every economy studied lost money on their crypto purchases between 2015 and 2022, with small holders buying as prices fell.

"Search for the ethereum price and you get predictions stretching to 2040," said Boris Dzhingarov, publisher of Cryptoext. "Very little of it explains why the number moves. We wrote the piece we could not find.""A guide that only lists reasons to buy is marketing," he added. "The drawdown from the 2025 peak is part of the story, and readers deserve it in the same document rather than a different one."

The piece closes with a checklist for readers weighing a position, including confirming any sharp move across two independent trackers, checking recent ETF flow data, reading futures funding rates before assuming a rally is durable, and sizing a holding to survive a 50 percent decline, on the grounds that ether has fallen further than that more than once.

The guide is aimed at beginner to intermediate investors and forms part of Cryptoext's Currency Market section, which covers the mechanics behind major digital asset prices.

The full guide is available at https://cryptoext.com/ethereum-price/

About Cryptoext

Cryptoext is a cryptocurrency and digital assets publication covering crypto investing, blockchain, wallets, DeFi, mining, and market analysis. It publishes guides and reference material for beginner to intermediate investors across its Currency Market, Crypto Apps and Tech, Crypto Mining News, and Guides sections.

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Boris DzhingarovPublisher, Cryptoext https://cryptoext.com/