After a prolonged period of accumulation and consolidation ETH remained in the shadows until a few days ago that showed the claws. With a near hard fork, the expectations are great and it shows in the development of the price. More accurate HF data: The Ethereum network will be undergoing a planned hard fork at block number 4.37mil (4,370,000), which will likely occur between 12:00 UTC and 13:00 UTC on Monday, October 16, 2017. The Ropsten test network underwent a hard fork on September 19th (UTC) at block number 1.7mil (1,700,000)