HostGHO vs LDO — price, size and safety, side by side
GHO (Monad) vs LDO (Ethereum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-09-17T20:24:07 / 2026-09-17T20:24:07.
GHO vs LDO — normalized performance, 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-17T20:24:07
| GHO | LDO | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.9984 | $0.39 |
| Market cap | — | — |
| 24h volume | $200.80K | $754.83K |
| Liquidity | $3.99M | $707.86K |
| FDV | — | — |
| Holders | — | — |
| Age (days) | 77 | 1,548 |
| Safety grade | B | B |
Where they differ
- GHO measures ~5.6× the liquidity of LDO
- LDO measures ~3.8× the 24h volume of GHO
What the data says
GHO
GHO is Aave's answer to the question every lending market eventually asks: why should our own stablecoin pay someone else? Deposited collateral on Aave mints GHO against it, interest on GHO borrows flows back to Aave's DAO rather than a stablecoin issuer, and the peg is held by arbitrage against the lending market rather than a redemption window. The deployment at 0xfc421ad3c883bf9e7c4f42de845c4e4405799e73 is on Monad — new territory for a token that lives or dies by integration depth, and one of the first assets our index tracks there.
Our September 16, 2026 snapshot shows $4.0 million of tracked pool liquidity — real depth for a chain this young. The honest caveat: a stablecoin's worth is its peg history plus the health of the lending market behind it, and on a new chain both are short records so far. Our snapshot also did not assess this deployment's contract-level controls — the live scan is the check for that.
LDO
LDO is Lido DAO's governance token — the vote share over the largest staking pool in crypto, the operator set behind stETH and wstETH (both covered separately in this corpus). The contract 0x5a98fcbea516cf06857215779fd812ca3bef1b32 is the canonical deployment; our September 8, 2026 read shows $708 thousand of tracked pool liquidity at a $0.39 handle.
The honest mechanics: LDO is governance, not cash flow — it doesn't pay you a share of Lido's fee revenue, it buys influence over who gets to run validators and what the treasury does. Its risk is its dominance: Lido's share of staked ETH is large enough that regulators and the Ethereum community itself periodically debate capping it, and that debate is the LDO chart. A governance token on the biggest single point of staking centralization is a strange asset — know that is what it is.
FAQ
Which is bigger, GHO or LDO?
By tracked market cap: GHO (Monad) measures — and LDO (Ethereum) measures — — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, GHO or LDO?
On the contract checks we publish: GHO (Monad) grades B and LDO (Ethereum) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have GHO and LDO performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-15 and 2026-09-17T20:24:07, the measured snapshots show GHO at −0.14% and LDO at 0.00%.
More comparisons
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The grade column is the one CMC's compare page cannot print — our grade is computed from the contract itself (mint/freeze authority, liquidity, holder concentration). Changes are measured over the shared window stated on the chart, 2026-09-15→2026-09-17T20:24:07; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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