ether.fi price and where to buy ETHFI

What is ether.fi?

ether.fi is a liquid restaking service: users stake ETH, receive eETH, and their stake is restaked to secure other services for extra rewards. ETHFI is its governance token.

How to buy ether.fi, step by step

1. Pick an exchange. ETHFI is listed on every exchange we track. Compare fees, funding options and whether it serves your country in our exchange reviews.
2. Create and verify your account. Regulated exchanges ask for identity documents before you can deposit fiat.
3. Fund the account. A bank transfer or a stablecoin deposit usually costs far less than a card payment.
4. Buy ETHFI. Use the ETHFI/USDT or ETHFI/USD market, and check the cheapest venue in the table above first.
5. Decide where to keep it. On the exchange is simplest, but the exchange then holds your coins. ETHFI is a token on Ethereum and other networks; choose the network your wallet expects.

Where to buy ether.fi at the best price

The cheapest venue right now is marked in the table above. Add its trading fee before comparing: on ETHFI the venues disagree by about 0.12 percent on average, so on a small purchase the fee and the funding method usually matter more.

• The price on that venue. Each row shows the gap to our composite.
• The trading fee. Our fee comparison lists spot fees side by side.
• How you fund the account. A bank transfer or stablecoin deposit is usually far cheaper than a card payment, which often costs several percent.

Why the ether.fi price differs between exchanges

In our minute-by-minute measurement the gap between the highest and lowest venue averaged about 0.12 percent, against about 0.025 percent for Bitcoin. It went above half a percent in about 11 minutes out of every thousand, and reached about 1.1 percent at its widest.

About half of the ETHFI spot volume we track trades on a single venue. The spread figure at the top of this page is the live measurement; our guide on why crypto prices differ between exchanges explains the mechanism.

What moves the ether.fi price

The wider crypto market, and in ETHFI’s case its own news too. In our hourly composite, ETHFI moved with Bitcoin at a correlation of about 0.48, where 1 would mean identical moves, and its moves were about three and a half times the size of Bitcoin’s.

ETHFI-specific drivers come on top: deposits in ether.fi, restaking rewards, token unlocks and leverage. The funding rates on this page show whether leveraged traders are paying to be long or short right now.

Pros and cons of ether.fi

Pros

• Governance over a large liquid-restaking service.
• Listed on every exchange we track.

Cons

• Restaking adds slashing risk on top of ordinary staking.
• Its hourly moves were about three and a half times Bitcoin’s in our data.
• It trades far below its all-time high of about $8.53.

ether.fi’s highest price

ether.fi’s all-time high is about $8.53 on volume-weighted data. The chart above shows the last 30 days of our composite, and the ETHFI to USD converter applies the live price to any amount.