HostUSDC vs CRD — price, size and safety, side by side
USDC (Ethereum) vs CRD (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.
USDC vs CRD — normalized performance, 2026-09-07 to 2026-09-17T20:24:07
| USDC | CRD | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.04 | $2.13K |
| Market cap | — | — |
| 24h volume | $3.77M | $4.03B |
| Liquidity | $639.17M | $1.99B |
| FDV | — | — |
| Holders | — | — |
| Age (days) | 0 | 1 |
| Safety grade | B | B |
Where they differ
- CRD measures ~3.1× the liquidity of USDC
- CRD measures ~1,068× the 24h volume of USDC
What the data says
USDC
USDC is crypto's regulated dollar — Circle's token, backed by cash and short Treasuries with monthly attestations, the asset institutional DeFi is settled in. The deployment at 0x26d2d7456121e8806a8fd29cab8a76e59a7f500b reads as a second USDC-branded contract on Ethereum rather than the canonical 0xa0b8…eb48 mint — our September 7, 2026 snapshot shows $639 million of tracked pool liquidity on it regardless, which is the honest oddity of this row: a noncanonical address carrying canonical-tier depth.
That gap between name and address is exactly what the verify step is for. USDC's risk profile is issuer-shaped — freeze controls, blacklists, attestation cadence — but those properties only transfer to the address Circle actually operates. Whether this contract is a Circle deployment, an official migration, or something trading on the name is a question the address answers and the ticker cannot.
CRD
Four billion dollars is what CRD's venue feed claimed the token traded in a single day — on August 19, 2026, when Cirudu was approximately one day old. Put that figure next to the rest of the same snapshot: about $1.99 billion in claimed liquidity, a recorded market capitalization of zero, and no holder count at all. For scale, four billion dollars of daily turnover is what entire major exchanges do; a nameless day-old Base token reporting it while having no measurable owners is describing something that cannot exist. The parsimonious explanation is reported-figure inflation — trading volume manufactured against the token's own pools so that listing feeds repeat impressive numbers.
This page's honest scope: HostDeFi's EVM snapshot grades market structure from those very venue feeds, which is why the incoherence above is the most valuable output the capture produced. The contract itself — mint powers, owner functions, transfer taxes, honeypot mechanics at 0x95735d3f68d045c942afb9ea1090f6b03150bfab — was not assessed in this snapshot, and with a token in this category, the contract is where the actual answer lives. Run the live scan above; it reads the chain, not the feed.
FAQ
Which is bigger, USDC or CRD?
By tracked market cap: USDC (Ethereum) measures — and CRD (Base) measures — — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, USDC or CRD?
On the contract checks we publish: USDC (Ethereum) grades B and CRD (Base) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have USDC and CRD performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-07 and 2026-09-17T20:24:07, the measured snapshots show USDC at 0.00% and CRD 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, 2026-09-07→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.