Up nearly 15% over the past week, ether’s price hit its latest high of about $2,735 shortly after 2 p.m.
Ethereum is often the go-to blockchain for many of the products and services that have soared in popularity recently—including the decentralized-finance products that have grown four-fold in volume this year and the now-fizzling frenzy around non-fungible tokens, all of which are mainly built on Ethereum.
I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I double-majored in business journalism and economics while working for UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School as a marketing and communications assistant.