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Buy Ethereum online in minutes, in the app, or in person at a branch. Live market price, delivered to a wallet you control.

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Ethereum price today

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Three ways to buy Ethereum

Online, in the app, or across a branch counter

Online, in minutes

Enter the amount in the widget above, pay with any of 100+ methods, and your ETH lands in your wallet within minutes of the payment clearing.

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In the Coin Nerds app

The same live price and the same non-custodial delivery, on your phone. Buy Ethereum, watch the price, and take delivery to the wallet you choose.

In person, near you

Bring your ID and your wallet, pay in cash or by card or transfer, and leave with the coins already in your wallet. Branches set their own hours; call for hours.

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Every other major city: agents worldwide, arranged over chat or by phone.

How it works

Three steps to ETH in your wallet

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Open your account
Sign up and verify your identity. Same-day signup to first trade is standard.
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Enter the amount, see exactly what you get
What you pay and what lands, side by side, at the live rate. Nothing moves until you confirm.
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Pay, then check your wallet
Pay with any of 100+ methods, or cash at a branch. Coins arrive within minutes of the payment clearing.

Why buy Ethereum here

Your coins, your keys, and a person who answers

Customers have bought crypto from Coin Nerds, and sold it back to us, since 2018, online and across the counter, and we have never held a customer's coins.

Delivered to your wallet: Every ETH purchase goes to the wallet address you provide, within minutes of your payment clearing. There is no exchange balance to be frozen or lost.
The live market rate: You see what you pay and what you receive before you confirm. The number you see is the number that lands.
100+ payment methods: Local bank transfers, cards, wallets, and cash, including SEPA, JazzCash, WeChat Pay, Zelle, Interac e-Transfer, PayPal, and Cash in Person.
Regulated in multiple jurisdictions: A registered money services business, $3B+ settled since 2018, 100K+ customers. Every registration is public on our licenses page.
Real people, 24/7: On chat (WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, WeChat) or by email any hour, and by phone or across the counter during branch hours.
Any size: From a first small order in the widget to $50,000+ blocks at one locked price through the OTC desk.

About Ethereum

What Ethereum is, and why people buy it

Ethereum is the network that turned blockchains into computers. Where Bitcoin records who owns what, Ethereum also runs programs, called smart contracts, that move money by rules anyone can inspect. Stablecoins such as USDC, most decentralized finance, NFTs, and thousands of tokens run on it or on the layer-2 networks built on top of it. Ether (ETH) is the coin that pays for all of that activity and secures the network.

People buy ETH to hold the second-largest crypto asset, to use applications built on Ethereum, to pay for transactions on the network and its layer-2s, and to stake it and earn network rewards. Since the network moved to proof of stake in 2022, ETH is also one of the assets you can stake from a wallet you control.

Buy Ethereum from Coin Nerds, or sell it to us, online and across branch counters. Every purchase settles at the live market rate on this page and is delivered to your own wallet within minutes of your payment clearing, ready to use, hold, or stake.

How to store Ethereum

Ethereum is delivered to any wallet you control: a hardware wallet such as a Ledger or Trezor for larger amounts, or a wallet such as MetaMask, Rabby, or a mobile wallet for everyday use and for connecting to applications. Make sure the address you give us is on Ethereum mainnet, not a layer-2, unless you specifically asked for that. Write down the recovery phrase and keep it offline. A real person is on chat if you have questions before your first order.

Ticker: ETH. One ether divides into 1,000,000,000 gwei (the unit transaction fees are quoted in) and 10^18 wei.
Launched: July 2015, proposed by Vitalik Buterin and built by a founding team including Gavin Wood and Joseph Lubin.
Supply: No hard cap. New ETH is issued to stakers, and a portion of every transaction fee is burned, so net issuance can be near zero or negative depending on network use.
Consensus: Proof of stake since The Merge in September 2022: validators lock ETH to secure the network instead of spending energy on mining.
Ecosystem: Home of smart contracts, stablecoins, DeFi, and NFTs, with layer-2 networks such as Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and Polygon settling to it.
Custody: You hold ETH with a private key. Coin Nerds delivers to the wallet address you provide, so the keys are yours from the first minute.

Protocol facts are public and current as of August 18, 2026. Prices on this page are the live Coin Nerds market feed.

Questions people ask

Buying Ethereum, answered

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How do I buy Ethereum with Coin Nerds?

Three ways. Online: open an account, verify, enter the amount in the widget on this page, pay with any of 100+ methods, and the ETH lands in your wallet within minutes of the payment clearing. In the app: the same flow on your phone. In person: walk into a Coin Nerds branch with your ID and your wallet, pay in cash or by card or transfer, and leave with the coins already in your wallet.

Can I buy Ethereum with cash, near me?

Yes. Buy Ethereum with cash across the counter at any Coin Nerds branch, or through our agents in every major city worldwide, any amount, arranged over chat or by phone.

Do I need my own wallet to buy Ethereum?

Yes, and that is the point. Coin Nerds is non-custodial: your ETH is delivered to a wallet whose keys you hold, not to an exchange balance. If you do not have one yet, a real person is on chat to answer questions before your first order.

How much Ethereum can I buy, and how fast does it arrive?

Any fraction of a coin. Small orders go through the widget or the app at the live rate and arrive in your wallet within minutes of your payment clearing; orders of $50,000 or more go through the OTC desk for one locked price and a dedicated account manager. Same-day signup to first trade is standard.

Is it safe to buy Ethereum through Coin Nerds?

Coin Nerds, Inc. is a registered money services business regulated in multiple jurisdictions, with $3B+ settled since 2018 and 100K+ customers. Because purchases are delivered to your own wallet, there is no exchange balance to be frozen or lost. Every registration is published on our licenses page.

What is the Ethereum price today?

The live ETH price is in the widget and in the market panel on this page, quoted from the live market in USD with CAD and other currencies alongside. The amount you see when you confirm is the amount that lands in your wallet.

Can I stake the Ethereum I buy?

Yes. Ethereum runs on proof of stake, and you can stake ETH from a wallet you control. Coin Nerds helps you delegate without giving up your keys; see the staking page for how it works.

What is gwei?

A billionth of an ether. Ethereum transaction fees (gas) are quoted in gwei, so you will see the unit whenever you send ETH or use an application on the network.

Should I buy ETH on Ethereum or on a layer-2?

Coin Nerds delivers ETH on Ethereum mainnet, which is what most wallets, exchanges, and applications expect. If you need it somewhere else, ask us on chat before you order rather than giving a layer-2 address.

How to buy Ethereum online, in the app, or in person

To buy Ethereum online, open a Coin Nerds account and verify your identity, which takes the same day. Enter the amount you want to spend in the widget, choose from 100+ payment methods including SEPA, JazzCash, WeChat Pay, Zelle, Interac e-Transfer, PayPal, and Cash in Person, and confirm. Your ETH is delivered to the wallet address you provide within minutes of the payment clearing, at the live market rate you saw when you confirmed. The Coin Nerds app runs the same flow on your phone. To buy Ethereum in person, visit any Coin Nerds branch with government-issued ID and the wallet you want the coins delivered to, pay in cash or by card or transfer, and leave with the coins already in your wallet. Branches set their own hours, so call for hours. In every other major city, our agents arrange in-person cash purchases over chat or by phone.

Buy Ethereum near you

Coin Nerds runs branches around the world, including Mississauga (Ontario, Canada), Salt Lake City (Utah, United States), Lahore (Pakistan), and each has its own page with the address and how to reach it. If you searched for a way to buy Ethereum with cash near you, a branch or an agent is the answer: the price is the live market rate, the coins go to your own wallet, and a person is across the counter the whole time.

Buying Ethereum with a bank transfer, a card, a wallet, or cash

Coin Nerds supports 100+ payment methods across regions, so you pay the way you already pay wherever you are: local bank transfers such as SEPA, JazzCash, PayPal, and Cash in Person, debit and credit cards, wallets, and cash at a branch or through an agent. Whatever the method, the quote is the live market rate and the amount you see is the amount of ETH that lands.

A regulated place to buy Ethereum

Coin Nerds, Inc. is a registered money services business regulated in multiple jurisdictions, founded in 2018, with $3B+ settled and 100K+ customers. Every registration is published on the licenses page. Because every purchase is delivered to a wallet you control, buying Ethereum here never means trusting an exchange with your coins. Real human support is available 24/7, 365 days a year on chat and email, and by phone during branch hours.

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