HostWETH vs GHO — price, size and safety, side by side
WETH (Ethereum) vs GHO (Ethereum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-09-27 / 2026-09-27.
WETH vs GHO — normalized performance, 2026-09-08 to 2026-09-27T21:19:38
| WETH | GHO | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.69K | $0.9992 |
| Market cap | $5.53B | $697.96M |
| 24h volume | $248.92M | $1.72M |
| Liquidity | $925.88M | $26.48M |
| FDV | $5.53B | $697.96M |
| Holders | 3,671,764 | 8,133 |
| Age (days) | 1,727 | 368 |
| Safety grade | A | B |
Where they differ
- WETH measures ~7.9× the market cap of GHO
- WETH measures ~35× the liquidity of GHO
- WETH measures ~144× the 24h volume of GHO
- WETH measures ~451× the holder count of GHO
- over the shared window WETH moved +8.78% while GHO moved +0.12%
What the data says
WETH
WETH is the oldest load-bearing contract in DeFi. Deployed in December 2017 as WETH9, the contract at 0xc02aaa39b223fe8d0a0e5c4f27ead9083c756cc2 does exactly one thing: wrap ETH — which predates the ERC-20 standard and doesn't conform to it — into a token that does, redeemable one-for-one, instantly, by anyone, forever. It has no owner, no admin functions, no upgrade path, and no pause switch. Nearly every DEX trade, lending market, and NFT sale on Ethereum has settled through it at some point; it is less a token than a piece of the chain's plumbing.
That architecture is why the usual checklist comes back almost empty. There is no team to rug, no supply policy to abuse — WETH supply is simply however much ETH is currently deposited in the contract, minted on wrap and burned on unwrap. The failure mode people theorize about (the contract holding less ETH than WETH outstanding) would require a bug that eight-plus years of the highest-value adversarial testing in crypto has not found. HostDeFi's September 27, 2026 snapshot shows roughly $926 million of tracked pool liquidity and $73 million of daily volume on this deployment, and both understate reality — WETH is one side of thousands of pools our sample doesn't enumerate.
GHO
GHO is Aave's native stablecoin — minted against collateral deposited in the Aave protocol, with its monetary policy governed by Aave governance. The contract 0x40d16fc0246ad3160ccc09b8d0d3a2cd28ae6c2f is what our scan tracks: $26.5 million of pool liquidity as of September 26, 2026, trading essentially at its dollar peg.
The honest mechanics: GHO is overcollateralized-debt stablecoin design — borrowers mint it against Aave collateral, so its backing is the health of Aave's markets rather than a bank account. Peg deviations are the figure to watch: a stablecoin that trades below peg is the market pricing the collateral-and-arbitrage machinery's speed, and GHO's history includes real time spent under a dollar before stabilizers matured.
FAQ
Which is bigger, WETH or GHO?
By tracked market cap: WETH (Ethereum) measures $5.53B and GHO (Ethereum) measures $697.96M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, WETH or GHO?
On the contract checks we publish: WETH (Ethereum) grades A and GHO (Ethereum) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have WETH and GHO performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-08 and 2026-09-27T21:19:38, the measured snapshots show WETH at +8.78% and GHO at +0.12%.
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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→2026-09-27T21:19:38; 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.