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# ETH this week: +0% in seven days, positive funding on perps
- URL: https://zipmex.com/blog/eth-weekly-2026-09-08/
- Published: 2026-09-08T13:53:43.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-08T13:53:43.000Z
- Description: Ethereum closed the week at $2,472.38 (+0.1% in 7 days, +27.8% in 30). Market cap, the seven-day range and what the ZIPMEX perp market is charging to hold a position, with sources.
- Author: ZIPMEX
- Tags: ETH, Cryptocurrency

Ethereum (ETH) trades at $2,472.38 on September 8, 2026: -1.3% over 24 hours, +0.1% over seven days and +27.8% over thirty. That leaves it 50% below the all-time high of $4,946.05 set on 2025-08-24\. Here is what the market and the ZIPMEX perp book say about the week, with every number sourced.

## The numbers

| Price                   | $2,472.38 |
| ----------------------- | --------- |
| 24 hours                | \-1.3%    |
| 7 days                  | +0.1%     |
| 30 days                 | +27.8%    |
| Market cap              | $301.7B   |
| 24h volume (all venues) | $11.3B    |
| Market rank             | #2        |
| Perp open interest      | $26.6M    |
| Perp 24h volume         | $15.2M    |
| Max leverage            | 100x      |

## Perps: funding and open interest

On ZIPMEX Perps the ETH/USDC market shows an estimated funding rate of +0.0159% per eight hours (last settled: +0.0169%), $26.6M of open interest and $15.2M traded in 24 hours. Positive funding means longs are paying shorts: leveraged traders lean bullish and pay for the privilege. Max leverage is 100x.

## Levels from the last seven days

The seven-day high was $2,526.1 on 2026-09-04 and the low $2,371.22 on 2026-09-02, a 7% range. Reclaiming the all-time high would take a 2.0x from here. We do not publish price predictions; these are the levels the market actually printed.

## Method and sources

Snapshot taken 2026-09-08 13:53 UTC. Price, supply and market cap: CoinGecko. Perps: ZIPMEX Perps public market data. Volume across all venues and all-time high: aggregated market data. This digest is generated from those feeds and reviewed by ZIPMEX Research; numbers on the [ETH landing](https://zipmex.com/tokens/eth/) refresh every minute.

*Crypto assets are volatile and you can lose your capital. Nothing here is investment advice.*

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