HostWPOL vs USDC — price, size and safety, side by side
WPOL (Polygon) vs USDC (Solana) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-10-15 / 2026-10-17.
WPOL vs USDC — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-10-15T21:43:45
| WPOL | USDC | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.09522 | $0.9998 |
| Market cap | $18.64M | $8.60B |
| 24h volume | $7.21M DEX | $1.90B DEX |
| Liquidity | $6.75M | $464.95M |
| FDV | $18.63M | $8.60B |
| Holders | 843,296 | 5,248,202 |
| Age (days) | 1,687 | — |
| Safety grade | A | A |
Where they differ
- USDC measures ~461× the market cap of WPOL
- USDC measures ~69× the liquidity of WPOL
- USDC measures ~263× the 24h volume of WPOL
- USDC measures ~6.2× the holder count of WPOL
- over the shared window WPOL moved −14.8% while USDC moved −0.03%
What the data says
WPOL
WPOL at 0x0d500b1d8e8ef31e21c99d1db9a6444d3adf1270 is the gas token's wrapped twin — the ERC-20 face of POL on its own chain, the contract long-timers knew as WMATIC before the token migration renamed what it wraps. One POL in, one WPOL out; the wrapper exists because DeFi needs an ERC-20 and the gas token is not one.
The October 9, 2026 snapshot is as clean as this index prints: the contract cannot mint new supply, cannot freeze balances, and is not a proxy — grade A, on a wrapper whose entire job is to be boring. 843,296 wallets hold it; the market cap reads $18.6 million across 206.7 million wrapped units, and $6.7 million of tracked depth is deep for that size. Daily turnover of $16.1 million is the sound of plumbing doing work — a gas wrapper trades constantly because everything routes through it.
USDC
USDC is the dollar most of Solana actually trades in, and judging it takes a different lens than the one that works on memecoins. This is a centralized, fiat-backed stablecoin: Circle issues it, holds the reserves behind it, and publishes monthly attestations of those reserves. On Solana it lives at mint EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v, where the October 6, 2026 snapshot records about $8.6 billion of market capitalization, roughly 5.25 million holders, and around $465 million of tracked pool liquidity — the deepest dollar venue on the chain.
Here is the part that confuses people who learned token safety from rug-checkers: USDC's mint and freeze authorities are live, on purpose, permanently. Circle has to mint new USDC when dollars come in and burn it when they go out — that is what "backed" means mechanically — and it maintains the ability to freeze addresses to comply with sanctions and court orders, which it has used. On a memecoin, a live mint authority is the classic rug lever; on a fiat-backed stablecoin it is the product working as designed. The risk hasn't vanished — it has moved from an anonymous deployer to a regulated company, which is a trade most holders are knowingly making.
FAQ
Which is bigger, WPOL or USDC?
By tracked market cap: WPOL (Polygon) measures $18.64M and USDC (Solana) measures $8.60B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, WPOL or USDC?
On the contract checks we publish: WPOL (Polygon) grades A and USDC (Solana) grades A. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have WPOL and USDC performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-10-15T21:43:45, the measured snapshots show WPOL at −14.8% and USDC at −0.03%.
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→2026-10-15T21:43:45; 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.