HostPYUSD vs RDK — price, size and safety, side by side
PYUSD (Ethereum) vs RDK (Base) — 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.
PYUSD vs RDK — normalized performance, 2026-09-08 to 2026-09-17T20:24:07
| PYUSD | RDK | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.00 | $2.07K |
| Market cap | — | — |
| 24h volume | $59.49M | $2.89B |
| Liquidity | $99.93M | $1.74B |
| FDV | — | — |
| Holders | — | — |
| Age (days) | 245 | 1 |
| Safety grade | B | B |
Where they differ
- RDK measures ~17× the liquidity of PYUSD
- RDK measures ~49× the 24h volume of PYUSD
What the data says
PYUSD
PYUSD is what a stablecoin looks like when it's built for regulators first and DeFi second. PayPal USD is issued not by PayPal directly but by Paxos Trust Company, a New York–chartered trust supervised by NYDFS, with reserves held in dollar deposits, U.S. Treasuries, and equivalents, attested monthly. The Ethereum deployment lives at 0x6c3ea9036406852006290770bedfcaba0e23a0e8, where HostDeFi's September 16, 2026 snapshot records roughly $100 million of tracked pool liquidity and $11 million of daily on-chain volume — modest next to USDC or USDT, in keeping with a coin whose primary life is inside PayPal and Venmo balances rather than on DEXes.
Read the contract powers through the regulated-issuer lens or you'll misread them as red flags. PYUSD's contract can mint (against dollars in), burn (against dollars out), pause transfers entirely, and freeze or even wipe balances at specific addresses under Paxos's asset-protection role. On an anonymous token, that list is a rug in waiting; here it is the legally mandated toolkit of a New York trust company, and NYDFS supervision is precisely the reason those powers exist. The trade you make holding PYUSD is explicit: maximum issuer accountability, in exchange for maximum issuer control.
RDK
Sometimes the read on a token is defined by what is missing, and Rudake is that case. HostDeFi's August 19, 2026 capture of RDK — taken when the token was about one day old — has no holder count, no market capitalization, no mint- or freeze-control assessment, and no identifying history. What it does have is a pair of claims from the listing venue: roughly $1.74 billion in pool liquidity and $2.89 billion in daily volume. When the only two numbers present are the two easiest to fabricate, and every number that is hard to fabricate is absent, the shape of the data is itself the disclosure.
Why those two, specifically? Because screeners and aggregators rank by them. An operator who cycles trades against their own pool manufactures "volume" for the cost of gas; reserve figures arrive via feeds that don't audit what they relay. Holder counts and contract state, by contrast, live on-chain where anyone can check — which is why they are the fields that go missing when the goal is to look large rather than be large.
FAQ
Which is bigger, PYUSD or RDK?
By tracked market cap: PYUSD (Ethereum) measures — and RDK (Base) measures — — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, PYUSD or RDK?
On the contract checks we publish: PYUSD (Ethereum) grades B and RDK (Base) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have PYUSD and RDK performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-08 and 2026-09-17T20:24:07, the measured snapshots show PYUSD at +0.33% and RDK at 0.00%.
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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, 2026-09-08→2026-09-17T20:24:07; 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.