ETH/BTC ratio remains below 0.05 despite institutional adoption and ATH

The Ether-Bitcoin (ETH/BTC) ratio, which measures the terms of Ether (ETH) against the terms of Bitcoin (BTC), has failed to reclaim 0.05, contempt adoption of ETH by institutions and the historical terms rally successful July and August that took ETH to caller all-time highs.

ETH/BTC has remained beneath the 0.05 level since July 2024, and the ratio peaked successful June 2017 erstwhile it deed the all-time precocious of 0.14, according to CoinGecko. The ratio existent sits astatine 0.039, down from the 0.04 reached successful August.

The ratio fell to a 5-year low successful March, collapsing to 0.02, amid macroeconomic uncertainty and rising commercialized tensions betwixt the United States and its trading partners.

The ETH/BTC ratio from July 2022 to July 2025. Source: TradingView

However, the cryptocurrency marketplace recovered, rallying to caller highs successful the ensuing months. Ether’s terms deed a series of highs successful August, reaching an all-time precocious of $4,957 connected August 24, earlier dropping by astir 6.7% to the existent terms level.

The terms of Ether has rallied by astir 155% since July, arsenic fiscal institutions adopt the token for treasury purposes, accepted equity investors acquisition ETH done exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and the Ethereum Foundation pitches the web to Wall Street.

ETH experiences a terms rally successful July and August, climbing to caller all-time highs. Source: TradingView

Related: Ether breaks retired against BTC, but caller highs beryllium connected $4.7K becoming support

Ethereum outperforms BTC conscionable 15% of the clip since launch

Ether has outperformed BTC lone 15% of the time since its motorboat successful 2015, according to marketplace expert James Check.

Check’s information shows that the bulk of ETH’s outperformance occurred betwixt 2015 and 2017, successful the aftermath of the motorboat of the world’s archetypal astute declaration blockchain level and the archetypal coin offering (ICO) roar of 2017.

However, since 2020, BTC has outperformed ETH, according to a terms past investigation shared by Check successful April.

A illustration comparing ETH and BTC terms show since 2015. Source: Checkmate

Market analysts are forecasting erstwhile Ethereum volition scope the $5,000 milestone, which it narrowly missed successful August by astir $43 earlier retracing to existent levels.

“With ETH adjacent its erstwhile ATHs, we whitethorn consolidate for a bit, fixed the precise ample run-up successful specified a abbreviated clip frame,” Jake Kennis, an expert astatine blockchain analytics and probe institution Nansen, told Cointelegraph during the August rally.

The expert said that it whitethorn instrumentality weeks oregon months for ETH to deed caller all-time highs pursuing the heated terms rally successful August.

Magazine: Meet the Ethereum and Polkadot co-founder who wasn’t successful Time Magazine