HostUSDAI vs UNI — price, size and safety, side by side
USDAI (Arbitrum) vs UNI (Ethereum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-10-17 / 2026-10-16.
USDAI vs UNI — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-10-16T21:15:32
| USDAI | UNI | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.00 | $7.46 |
| Market cap | $346.15M | $4.61B |
| 24h volume | $149.90K DEX | $2.16M DEX |
| Liquidity | $1.19M | $26.90M |
| FDV | $345.20M | $6.54B |
| Holders | 3,073 | 383,059 |
| Age (days) | 448 | 1,745 |
| Safety grade | B | A |
Where they differ
- UNI measures ~13× the market cap of USDAI
- UNI measures ~23× the liquidity of USDAI
- UNI measures ~14× the 24h volume of USDAI
- UNI measures ~125× the holder count of USDAI
- over the shared window USDAI moved −0.02% while UNI moved +7.35%
What the data says
USDAI
USDAI is USD.ai's stablecoin — a dollar token backed by loans against GPU and AI-infrastructure collateral, one of the more unusual collateral stacks in the stablecoin set. The contract 0x0a1a1a107e45b7ced86833863f482bc5f4ed82ef is what our scan tracks: $1.2 million of pool liquidity as of October 9, 2026 on Arbitrum, trading essentially at its dollar peg.
The honest mechanics: the backing is hardware-collateralized lending — claims on AI infrastructure and the loans against it — which is genuinely different from the treasury-bill or crypto-overcollateralized models most stablecoins use, and carries its own risks (hardware values depreciate and loan books can go bad). The pool here is thin, so redemptions at size route through the issuer's machinery rather than the public market.
UNI
UNI is Uniswap's governance token — the asset of the protocol that invented the automated market maker and still clears more DEX volume than the rest of the field combined. The deployment 0x1f9840a85d5af5bf1d1762f925bdaddc4201f984 is the canonical mint; our October 9, 2026 snapshot reads $26.9 million of tracked pool liquidity on this pair set.
The honest asymmetry is the governance-token shape: UNI's thesis is control over a fee-generating machine, but the "fee switch" — the mechanism that would route protocol revenue to holders — has been proposed and deferred for years, so the token trades on governance value and the perennial expectation rather than cashflow it actually pays. That makes its valuation more reflexive than a productive asset's.
FAQ
Which is bigger, USDAI or UNI?
By tracked market cap: USDAI (Arbitrum) measures $346.15M and UNI (Ethereum) measures $4.61B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, USDAI or UNI?
On the contract checks we publish: USDAI (Arbitrum) grades B and UNI (Ethereum) grades A. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have USDAI and UNI performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-10-16T21:15:32, the measured snapshots show USDAI at −0.02% and UNI at +7.35%.
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→2026-10-16T21:15:32; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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