The cost of a unit of ether increased by $131.61 over the past year

investors are panicking because they think assets like stocks, bonds and real estate are about to collapse. So they are dumping as much money as possible into highly-liquid assets such as cryptocurrencies. There is some evidence to support this thesis: last month hedge fund billionaire; and former Goldman Sachs partner, Mike Novogratz revealed that he has 10% of his money in ethereum and bitcoin.