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Ethereum Classic (ETC) · price and where to buy

Buy Ethereum Classic (ETC) with euros on a licensed platform

1 ETC ≈ €6.97mid-market price on 4 platforms · 21:31 CEST

For €100 you currently get the most ETC on OKX: 14.1767 ETC after all fees (1.12%). On Bitstamp you would get 14.0512 ETC, worth €0.88 less. Based on our comparison of 20 October 2026, 21:31 CEST, buying in the simple app with money already in your account.

Ethereum Classic

How will you pay?

Euros already in your account, for example after a bank transfer. Any deposit fee is not included.

How will you buy?

One tap to buy in the app. The price often includes a markup.

Most Ethereum Classic for your money: OKX, 14.1767 ETCSee the comparison

Comparison result

€100 of Ethereum Classic, Euro balance, simple app. Calculated at .

  1. OKX

    Most crypto for your money

    You get

    14.1767 ETC

    Costs

    €1.12 1.12%

    Go to OKX (opens in a new tab)
    Cost breakdown
    Payment fee
    €0.00
    Trading fee
    €0.00
    Maximum app markup (1.00%)
    €0.99
    Price difference and order book
    €0.13
    Total
    €1.12

    You effectively pay €7.05 per ETC. Market data from . We use the maximum markup OKX publishes; the actual markup may be lower (source: OKX Buy/Sell/Convert spread disclosure (opens in a new tab): maximaal 1,00%, 11 August 2026). Read our OKX fee guide

  2. Bitpanda

    €0.36 more than OKX

    You get

    14.125 ETC

    Costs

    €1.48 1.48%

    Go to Bitpanda (opens in a new tab)
    Cost breakdown
    Payment fee
    €0.00
    Trading fee
    €1.49
    App markup (0.00%)
    €0.00
    Price difference and order book
    -€0.01
    Total
    €1.48

    You effectively pay €7.08 per ETC. Market data from . Bitpanda publishes no markup on top of its fee, so we add none (source: Bitpanda Cost Transparency v4.0.0 (opens in a new tab): vast tarief op de eigen koers ("Offer Price"), geen aparte spread gepubliceerd, 8 July 2026). Read our Bitpanda fee guide

  3. Bitstamp

    €0.88 more than OKX

    You get

    14.0512 ETC

    Costs

    €2.00 2.00%

    Go to Bitstamp (opens in a new tab)
    Cost breakdown
    Payment fee
    €0.00
    Trading fee
    €0.00
    App markup (1.80%)
    €1.77
    Price difference and order book
    €0.23
    Total
    €2.00

    You effectively pay €7.12 per ETC. Market data from . The app markup is published by Bitstamp (source: Bitstamp fee schedule (geldig vanaf 15-10-2026) (opens in a new tab): Basic spread 1,8%, stablecoins 0,5%, bij volatiliteit tot 0,5% extra, 15 October 2026). Read our Bitstamp fee guide

Not in this comparison

  • Kraken: On its trading screen (Kraken Pro) you get 14.208 ETC, with a 0.80% trading fee (€0.90 in costs overall). The regular buy button charges a 1.00% fee plus a markup Kraken does not publish.

    Go to Kraken (opens in a new tab)

  • Coinbase: On its trading screen (Coinbase Advanced) you get 14.253 ETC, with a 0.50% trading fee (€0.59 in costs overall). With the regular buy button, you only see the fees and markup at checkout.

    Go to Coinbase (opens in a new tab)

  • Crypto.com: This platform charges a 0.80% fee in its app plus a markup it does not publish, so we cannot rank it fairly.
  • Bybit EU: This coin cannot be bought with euros here.

Bitpanda: based on the platform’s public price plus its published fee. Any extra markup in the app is not published by the platform.

All results are estimates based on public market data and the fees the platforms publish. They are not financial or tax advice. How we compare

Ethereum Classic price

ETC in US dollars · CoinGecko

as of 21:31 CEST

$7.83

Up 1.81% past 24 hours

Currency
Period

Ethereum Classic, past 24 hours: from $7.69 to $7.83 (up 1.81%). High $7.99, low $7.66.

Average price across exchanges. Data provided by CoinGecko (opens in a new tab). Past prices say nothing about future prices.

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Ethereum Classic price, past 24 hours
TimePrice
Mon 21:35$7.69
Tue 00:55$7.77
Tue 04:25$7.74
Tue 07:50$7.78
Tue 11:25$7.72
Tue 14:50$7.75
Tue 18:20$7.85
Tue 21:31$7.83

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Ethereum Classic price per platform

Price of 1 ETC per platform at 21:31 CEST
PlatformPrice per ETC
OKX€6.97
Coinbase€6.97
Bitpandapublic price€6.97
Bitstamp€6.98
Kraken€6.98

Mid-market price before fees, at 21:31 CEST. What you actually pay depends on the fees: you can see those in the comparison above. Not available in euros on: Bybit EU.

Background

What is Ethereum Classic?

By PlatformCrypto.eu editorial team · checked on

Ethereum Classic (opens in a new tab) (ETC) is the Ethereum blockchain that never rewrote its own history. Its ledger runs back to 30 July 2015, when Ethereum launched, and it simply leaves out the intervention of July 2016 that produced the Ethereum most people know today. That intervention followed the draining of The DAO, a crowdfunded smart contract that an attacker emptied of more than 3.6 million ether by exploiting a flaw in its code. A hard fork at block 1,920,000 moved the funds to a contract where DAO investors could reclaim them. Some miners refused to follow, arguing that the protocol had done exactly what it was told, and the unaltered chain they kept running started trading as ETC within days.

Behind that refusal is the principle of "code is law". Whatever a smart contract does is final, even when a bug causes it, and the project's website rules out do-overs, bailouts or refunds unless a contract was written to allow them. Nobody is formally in charge either: in the website's own words, there is "no official anything" in Ethereum Classic. Changes to the protocol are argued out in public proposals called ECIPs.

Mining still secures the network. When Ethereum moved to proof of stake with The Merge on 15 September 2022, ETC kept proof of work and took in many of the miners Ethereum no longer needed; the project now calls it the largest proof-of-work network for smart contracts. Its mining algorithm, Etchash, is a modified form of Ethash introduced with the Thanos upgrade (ECIP-1099) in November 2020, which recalibrated the way the DAG, a large dataset used in mining, is calculated.

The early years were harder on security. While Ethereum's mining power still dwarfed its own, attackers gained majority control of ETC in January 2019 and on three occasions in the summer of 2020, rewriting recent blocks to spend the same coins twice at exchanges. Exchanges responded by waiting for more confirmations, and in October 2020 the Core-Geth node software added MESS, a rule that makes nodes resist unusually deep reorganisations. With far more hashrate on the chain after The Merge, MESS was switched off by default at the Spiral upgrade in February 2024.

Issuance follows ECIP-1017, nicknamed 5M20. Every five million blocks the reward falls by a fifth, and the sixth era, which began with block 25,000,001 on 22 July 2026, pays 1.6384 ETC per block. When you withdraw, pick the Ethereum Classic network rather than Ethereum; the Ethereum Classic network page lists the platforms that support it. ETC is priced separately from ether, and a sharp fall in its euro value can happen within days.

Official website: ethereumclassic.org (opens in a new tab)

Networks

Which network is Ethereum Classic on?

ETC is the native coin of Ethereum Classic, the currency that pays for every transaction on it. Other coins live on Ethereum Classic as well, built on the ERC-20 standard.

Withdrawing to your own wallet

The networks each platform lets you withdraw this coin on. Pick one that your wallet supports as well.

PlatformNetwork
KrakenEthereum Classic
CoinbaseEthereum Classic
BitpandaNo withdrawals to your own wallet
OKXEthereum Classic
BitstampEthereum Classic

Taken from the platforms' public lists on 16 October 2026. For Coinbase we use the Coinbase Exchange list. Check the platform's app before you withdraw, as a network can be paused at short notice.

Keep your ETC in your own wallet

These wallets hold ETC themselves. Buy on a platform first, then move your ETC to the wallet over a network both of them support.

In four steps

How to buy Ethereum Classic

  1. Choose a platform

    At the top you can see where your amount buys the most ETC, with every fee included.

  2. Open an account

    Sign up and verify your identity. Licensed platforms are required to check who you are; it usually takes a few minutes.

  3. Add euros

    For example by SEPA bank transfer or by card. Check the deposit fee on the platform first: it differs per method.

  4. Buy ETC

    Enter the amount and confirm. Before you do, check the fee and the price the platform shows you.

Questions about Ethereum Classic

How much is 1 Ethereum Classic worth right now?

On 20 October 2026 at 21:31 CEST, 1 ETC was worth €6.97 on average: the median mid-market price on 4 platforms. The price changes all the time, and what you pay on a platform also depends on its fees.

How does Ethereum Classic differ from Ethereum?

They began as one network in 2015 and split in July 2016, when Ethereum changed its rules to recover the funds taken from The DAO and Ethereum Classic kept the ledger as it was. Since then they have been separate chains with separate coins, ETH and ETC, each with its own market price. The biggest technical gap opened in September 2022: Ethereum now runs on proof of stake, while ETC is still secured by miners.

Why is block 1,920,000 important?

It is the block where the DAO fork took effect on 20 July 2016. Ethereum clients that accepted the fork moved more than 3.6 million drained ether into a withdrawal contract at that height, and over 85% of the votes cast in a coin vote had supported doing so. Nodes that rejected the change carried on without it. Everything recorded before that block is shared history; everything after it belongs to one chain or the other.

How many ETC can ever exist?

ECIP-1017 sets an upper bound of 210.7 million ETC. About 72 million already existed in the genesis block of 2015. The rest is issued to miners on a schedule that cuts the reward per block by 20% at the start of every new era of five million blocks, from 5 ETC in the first era to 1.6384 ETC since July 2026.

Can you stake ETC?

Not in the way proof-of-stake networks allow. New ETC blocks come from proof-of-work mining with graphics cards or dedicated machines, so the protocol itself offers no staking. Some apps pay a return for lending out ETC, but the project points out that these sit outside the protocol and expose you to the party you lend to.

Could Ethereum Classic be hit by a 51% attack again?

In principle yes, as with any chain secured by mining. ETC was attacked in January 2019 and three times in the summer of 2020, when its hashrate was low; according to the project, exchanges lost around $10 million in ETC to double spends in 2020. The project says no further attacks have succeeded since the countermeasures that followed, and that ETC became the largest GPU-minable chain after Ethereum stopped mining in 2022.

Is there a MiCA white paper for ETC?

Yes. ESMA's interim MiCA register, in its version of 16 October 2026, lists a white paper for Ethereum Classic drawn up by Crypto Risk Metrics GmbH and notified through Germany's BaFin, first in June 2025 and in an amended version on 1 June 2026. A white paper describes the coin and its risks for European buyers. No regulator checks or approves its content.

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