Ethereum Q3: 70.6 Percent and the Level After

Ethereum closed the third quarter of 2026 up around 70.6 percent, its strongest third quarter on record. The price rose from $1,569.83 on July 1 to $2,689.39 on the evening of September 30. Bitcoin managed around 42.8 percent over the same period. For you as a holder, the more important question is therefore no longer how good the quarter was, but what the zone just below the quarterly high means for the weeks ahead, and which key dates now belong in your own calendar.

cryptoticker.io compiled this analysis itself on September 30, 2026. The basis is the public price history from CoinGecko for Ethereum and Bitcoin, evaluated across 92 daily values per coin from the start of the quarter to its close.

Ethereum in the third quarter of 2026: the numbers from $1,569.83 to $2,689.39

The course of the quarter falls into two unequal halves. Until the end of July, Ethereum moved within a narrow band; the actual advance began in August and ran into the second half of September. The quarterly high stands at $2,775.17 and was reached on September 22. From there the price gave up around 3.5 percent by the close of the quarter.

The spread between the quarterly low and the quarterly high comes to a factor of 1.77 for Ethereum. For Bitcoin the same figure is 1.48. That is the sober core of the quarterly result: Ethereum swung considerably wider than Bitcoin this quarter, upwards as well as in the pullbacks in between. Anyone who stepped in during August is sitting on a different outcome today than someone who bought at the start of July.