Avalanche (AVAX) was priced at $8.07 at 00:00 UTC on 8 September 2026, according to CoinGecko's daily snapshot. That was 11.7% higher than a week earlier ($7.23 on 1 September) and 24.7% higher than a month earlier ($6.48 on 9 August). The gain still left AVAX about 94% below its all-time high of $144.96, set on 21 November 2021. The newest data point: on 25 October 2026 AVAX was at $8.86, about 10% above the 8 September level, but down 9.4% over the previous seven days.
Where AVAX stands now (25 October 2026)
CoinGecko figures, last updated 25 October 2026 at 08:17 UTC:
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Price | $8.86 |
| 7-day change | -9.4% |
| 30-day change | -13.2% |
| Market cap | $3.93B |
| Market cap rank | #29 |
| Circulating supply | 443.9M AVAX |
| Total supply | 470.6M AVAX |
| Distance from all-time high ($144.96) | about 93.9% below |
So the September rally didn't hold in a straight line. The price is higher than on 8 September, but both the past week and the past month were negative as of 25 October.
The week to 8 September 2026
CoinGecko daily snapshots, taken at 00:00 UTC:
| Date | Price | Market cap |
|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2026 | $6.48 | $2.80B |
| 1 September 2026 | $7.23 | $3.12B |
| 8 September 2026 | $8.07 | $3.49B |
- 7-day change (1–8 September): +11.7%
- 30-day change (9 August–8 September): +24.7%
- 24-hour trading volume, all venues (CoinGecko, 8 September snapshot): $405.1M
- Distance from the all-time high on 8 September: about 94.4% below. A return to $144.96 would have needed roughly an 18x rise from $8.07.
These are daily snapshots, not intraday highs and lows. An intraday price on 8 September could have sat noticeably above or below $8.07.
How far is AVAX from its record?
Enter an AVAX price and a target price to see how many times the price would have to multiply to get there.
| Starting AVAX price | Target price | Multiple needed to reach the target |
|---|---|---|
| 8.07 USD | 144.96 USD | 18 x |
| 7.23 USD | 144.96 USD | 20 x |
| 8.86 USD | 144.96 USD | 16.4 x |
- The default prices are CoinGecko daily snapshots quoted in the article; any other value you enter is your own input.
- A result of 18 means the price would need to be 18 times higher, as in the article's 'roughly an 18x rise from $8.07'.
This is arithmetic on the two prices only. It does not forecast whether or when AVAX could reach any price, and it ignores intraday highs and lows, fees and tax.
Context from earlier in 2026
Two developments from the first half of the year explain who can now get AVAX exposure and how:
- Spot ETF with staking (15 April 2026). Bitwise launched the Bitwise Avalanche ETF (ticker BAVA) on NYSE on 15 April 2026. The issuer set the sponsor fee at 0.34%, waived to 0% for the first month on the fund's first $500M in assets. Bitwise said it would stake the fund's AVAX through its in-house unit, Bitwise Onchain Solutions. A liquidity reserve of 30% stays unstaked, so about 70% of the holdings are staked. The release cited average gross staking rewards of 5.4% as of 13 April 2026.
- Network activity in Q2 2026 (April–June). Nansen's Q2 2026 report counted a record 235.6M transactions on the Avalanche C-Chain, about 2.5M a day, and roughly 621,000 daily active addresses. It also reported $84.4B in stablecoin transfer volume and $8.7B in decentralised-exchange volume. These figures come from a single analytics source.
No Avalanche-specific news from the week of 1–8 September 2026 could be verified, so this piece doesn't attribute the weekly move to any one cause.
How to read these numbers
- Market cap moves with price and supply. Between 1 and 8 September, market cap rose about 11.7%, in line with the price. That points to the move coming from price, not new supply.
- Positive funding on perpetual futures means longs pay shorts. It shows leveraged traders leaning towards rising prices at that moment. It doesn't predict the next move, and funding can flip quickly.
- Distance from the record matters. A 94% drawdown means an 11.7% weekly gain moves the price only a small part of the way back towards the 2021 high.
Limitations: price, market cap and supply come from one aggregator (CoinGecko) at daily resolution; other data providers may show slightly different values.
Crypto assets are volatile and you can lose your capital. Nothing here is investment advice.
