HostWETH vs WEETH — price, size and safety, side by side
WETH (Ethereum) vs WEETH (Ethereum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-10-17 / 2026-10-17.
WETH vs WEETH — normalized performance, 2026-09-08 to 2026-10-17T03:15:24
| WETH | WEETH | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.42K | $2.68K |
| Market cap | $5.41B | $5.52B |
| 24h volume | $462.86M DEX | $2.25M DEX |
| Liquidity | $902.53M | $9.72M |
| FDV | $5.39B | $5.52B |
| Holders | 3,680,746 | — |
| Age (days) | 1,727 | 882 |
| Safety grade | A | B |
Where they differ
- WETH measures ~93× the liquidity of WEETH
- WETH measures ~206× the 24h volume of WEETH
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 October 9, 2026 snapshot shows roughly $903 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.
WEETH
weETH is ether.fi's wrapped eETH — the non-rebasing form of the liquid restaking token that sits on EigenLayer beneath the staking layer, so the holder earns both Ethereum staking yield and restaking yield in one claim. The deployment 0xcd5fe23c85820f7b72d0926fc9b05b43e359b7ee is the canonical mint; our October 9, 2026 snapshot reads $9.7 million of tracked pool liquidity.
The honest mechanics: a restaking token is a claim on ETH that is doing two jobs at once — securing Ethereum's consensus and securing EigenLayer services — which means its risk stack is the union of both: staking slashing, restaking slashing, and ether.fi's own contract layer on top. The yield is real; so is the doubled surface it comes from.
FAQ
Which is bigger, WETH or WEETH?
By tracked market cap: WETH (Ethereum) measures $5.41B and WEETH (Ethereum) measures $5.52B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, WETH or WEETH?
On the contract checks we publish: WETH (Ethereum) grades A and WEETH (Ethereum) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have WETH and WEETH performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-08 and 2026-10-17T03:15:24, the measured snapshots show WETH at −2.19% and WEETH at −3.23%.
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→2026-10-17T03:15:24; 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.