ETHFI Price Jumps 15% to Lead Crypto Gainers

ETHFI topped the day’s gainers with a double-digit move to around $0.74 and a $718 million market cap. The Liquid ETH vault now plugs into Fordefi, opening a direct route for institutional ETH deposits. A Binance Web3 Wallet link lets retail users enter the vaults without manual bridging. The daily RSI near 77 shows the rally is stretched and leaves room for a pullback. ether.fi’s governance token ETHFI led the market’s daily gainers on September 12, climbing roughly 15% over 24 hours to about $0.74 and lifting its market capitalization to $718 million. The move landed as the protocol’s Liquid ETH vault picked up two new distribution rails in early September, one aimed at institutional treasuries through the custody platform Fordefi and another routing retail deposits straight out of Binance’s Web3 Wallet. Trading volume tripled to roughly $180 million during the rally, which points to fresh spot buyers rather than short covering behind the session. A 15% day put ETHFI ahead of every major token The token is not moving in isolation. ETHFI has behaved as a leveraged proxy on Ethereum and the restaking sector for months, and this week that beta worked in its favor. Open interest sits near $115 million on CoinGlass, climbing alongside the price, which usually signals fresh capital entering rather than shorts covering. Over seven days the token added about 32%, outpacing both the broad market and its DeFi peers. The catalyst traders keep pointing to is concrete. Per ether.fi’s own post, the Liquid ETH vault is now live on Fordefi, letting treasuries and institutions deposit ETH directly from their Fordefi workspace into automated staking and lending strategies. EtherFi's Liquid ETH vault is now live on @FordefiHQ. Treasuries and institutions can now deposit ETH directly from their Fordefi workspace into automated staking and lending strategies. Put idle ETH to work pic.twitter.com/zZo31HMLd4 — ether.fi (@ether_fi) September 8, 2026 That is an adoption story with a mechanism behind it, not a chart pattern dressed up as news. Price $0.7438 Top daily gainer 24h change +14.94% Led the broad market 7-day change +32.15% Sustained trend Market cap $718.05M Mid-cap range RSI (14, daily) 77.19 OVERBOUGHT Fordefi hands corporate treasuries a one-click route into the vault Retail integrations expand who can reach a product. The Fordefi tie changes who can reach it with size. Fordefi is a custody and treasury platform built for hedge funds, corporate treasuries, and enterprise desks, and the integration means those users can push idle ETH into the Liquid vault from the wallet where their assets already sit. That removes the operational friction that normally keeps larger balance sheets out of on-chain yield, namely moving funds to a separate front-end, approving unfamiliar contracts, and reconciling everything afterward.