Coingecko 报告：以太坊第三季度表现优于比特币，但流动性下降
Ether's bitcoin-beating Q3 rally came with a catch. Liquidity thinned.
Coingecko 报告显示，以太坊在第三季度的价格涨幅超过比特币，但流动性相对比特币有所下降。以太坊的价格在季度内上涨了70%，而比特币上涨了42%。然而，从7月6日到9月30日，以太坊的日均市场深度仅为比特币的35%至45%，去年同期为至少60%。尽管如此，以太坊的流动性仍然相对较高，大多数交易所的深度维持在100万美元以上。
Oct 4, 2026, 11:50 p.m. EDT
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Summary
- Ether’s price rose more than bitcoin in the third quarter.
- But the token’s liquidity thinned out relative to bitcoin, according to Coingecko.
- XRP’s liquidity was skewed bullish, Coingecko added,
Ethereum's native token ether ETH$2,704.58 had a better third quarter than bitcoin BTC$85,111.31. Still, it got harder to trade, as liquidity, or how easily a token can be bought and sold without moving its price, thinned out.
Ether's price surged 70% in the quarter, outpacing bitcoin's 42% gain. Yet between July 6 and Sept. 30, its median daily market depth was just 35% to 45% of bitcoin's, according to a report by CoinGecko. In the same period last year, it was at least 60%. CoinGecko called it "a stark drop from last year's figures."
Market depth is the standard way to measure liquidity. It's the total dollar value of buy and sell orders sitting on exchanges within a set distance of the current price. The deeper the market, the more money it takes to move the price. In a thin market, a large order quickly eats through available orders and pushes the price further.
Ether had $13 million to $14 million in depth within 0.15% of its market price. In simple terms, that's roughly how much money was sitting in orders close enough to the price that clearing it would move ether by just 0.15%. Depth this close to the price matters most for everyday trades, and for large orders that traders want filled without moving the market.
The data undercuts a popular idea in markets that rising prices pull in more traders, and more traders mean deeper order books. That didn't happen with ether.
That said, ether is still fairly easy to trade.
"ETH remains fairly liquid at this range [within 0.15% of the market price], with most exchanges maintaining over $1 million in depth on each side," CoinGecko said.
And ether isn't the only major token with thinner markets.
Liquidity in solana's SOL, ether's main rival, has also shrunk, though CoinGecko measured it over a wider range. "The overall liquidity for SOL has shrunk considerably since 2025," the firm said.
SOL's depth within 2% of the market price fell from about $28 million on each side of the order book last year to around $20 million this year. Depth at 2% shows how much money sits in orders further from the current price. It's a gauge of how much selling or buying pressure the market can absorb before the price makes a bigger move, the kind seen during a sharp rally or sell-off. So while ether's thinning shows up right next to the price, SOL's shows up in its ability to handle larger swings.
XRP, the payments-focused cryptocurrency, held steady at around $30 million in total depth. But its order books leaned toward buyers during the study period, with close to $18 million in bids against $14 million in asks.
XRP's market cap is about 40% larger than SOL's, yet it has less depth within 2% of the price. That's because SOL still trades 25% more than XRP on an average day, CoinGecko said.
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来源：CoinDesk · coindesk.com