HostLDO vs PENDLE — price, size and safety, side by side
LDO (Ethereum) vs PENDLE (Arbitrum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-10-17 / 2026-10-17.
LDO vs PENDLE — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-10-17T03:15:24
| LDO | PENDLE | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.3976 | $2.10 |
| Market cap | $348.19M | $366.60M |
| 24h volume | $542.47K DEX | $272.93K DEX |
| Liquidity | $991.96K | $3.11M |
| FDV | $419.72M | $30.78M |
| Holders | — | 70,319 |
| Age (days) | 1,561 | 1,311 |
| Safety grade | B | B |
Where they differ
- PENDLE measures ~3.1× the liquidity of LDO
- LDO measures ~2.0× the 24h volume of PENDLE
- over the shared window LDO moved −9.90% while PENDLE moved −23.5%
What the data says
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 October 9, 2026 read shows $992 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.
PENDLE
PENDLE on Arbitrum at 0x0c880f6761f1af8d9aa9c466984b80dab9a8c9e8 is the bridged deployment of the yield-tokenization protocol's token — the asset behind the principal-and-yield-splitting market that turned fixed yield into a DeFi primitive. The October 9, 2026 snapshot prices the Arbitrum-local supply of 14.6 million units at $30.8 million fully diluted, against an asset-wide $366.6 million market cap.
$3.1 million of tracked pool depth on this chain is thin measured the way the depth flag measures — against the asset-wide figure — but functional: $632.8 thousand of 24-hour volume moves through it. The 1,293-day record belongs to a token whose liquidity genuinely spans chains, with Ethereum holding the canonical supply and Arbitrum holding the routed share, so the local book is a window on the market rather than the market itself.
FAQ
Which is bigger, LDO or PENDLE?
By tracked market cap: LDO (Ethereum) measures $348.19M and PENDLE (Arbitrum) measures $366.60M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, LDO or PENDLE?
On the contract checks we publish: LDO (Ethereum) grades B and PENDLE (Arbitrum) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have LDO and PENDLE performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-10-17T03:15:24, the measured snapshots show LDO at −9.90% and PENDLE at −23.5%.
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, 2026-09-21→2026-10-17T03:15:24; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
Figures are dated on-chain snapshots, not a live feed. Safety grades are structural checks — not investment advice. Free · no signup · a HostDeFi product.