What Does ATH Mean in Crypto?
ATH stands for "all-time high" — the highest price an asset has ever reached. In crypto, an ATH is always relative to a data source: it is the highest price recorded by a particular exchange or aggregator over the period it has tracked the asset.
The opposite is the ATL — all-time low, the lowest recorded price. Traders also say an asset is "X% below ATH" to describe how far the current price sits under the record, a standard way to measure drawdown.
Why the data source matters
There is no single official price for a cryptocurrency — it trades on many venues at once — so an all-time high is only meaningful with its source and method stated. A record based on one exchange's intraday spike can differ from one based on aggregated daily data. On this site, every ATH is the highest daily high in CoinMarketCap's aggregated data, and every ATH page states when that coverage begins. Early prices that predate the source — like Bitcoin's 2011 run to about $31 — are documented as cited milestones instead of chart data.
Examples with dates
| Coin | All-time high | Date set |
|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin | $126,198 | October 6, 2025 |
| Ethereum | $4,954 | August 24, 2025 |
| XRP | $3.84 | January 4, 2018 |
Data: CoinMarketCap
Look up any coin's record
Every coin in this archive has a dedicated all-time high page with the record price, its date, distance from the record, and prior cycle peaks: Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, Cardano.