HostWXDAI vs WETH — price, size and safety, side by side
WXDAI (Gnosis) vs WETH (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.
WXDAI vs WETH — normalized performance, 2026-10-09 to 2026-10-17T03:15:24
| WXDAI | WETH | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.998 | $2.42K |
| Market cap | $44.66M | $5.41B |
| 24h volume | $403.87K DEX | $462.86M DEX |
| Liquidity | $852.73K | $902.53M |
| FDV | $44.58M | $5.39B |
| Holders | 46,329 | 3,680,746 |
| Age (days) | 564 | 1,727 |
| Safety grade | A | A |
Where they differ
- WETH measures ~121× the market cap of WXDAI
- WETH measures ~1,058× the liquidity of WXDAI
- WETH measures ~1,146× the 24h volume of WXDAI
- WETH measures ~79× the holder count of WXDAI
What the data says
WXDAI
WXDAI starts from a genuinely strong place at the contract level. Nobody can print fresh supply, which keeps every holder's share intact, and it can't stop a sale either, so selling is always your call. That's exactly the setup you want to see, and it's why WXDAI earns a A (100/100) on the contract read as of 2026-10-09 — from here, it's really just the market to weigh.
On liquidity and holders, WXDAI shows workable liquidity of $852.73K, a holder base of 46,329 and 564 days old as of 2026-10-09. Against a market cap of about $44.66M, the $852.73K pool is workable rather than deep — fine for ordinary size to move in and out, though a larger position would start to feel the pool's edges. The 46,329-wallet base is a reasonable spread of ownership, though a headline count doesn't show whether a few wallets dominate — the concentration read on this page speaks to that. Reassuringly, the wallet that created WXDAI holds under 5% of supply (<0.01%) as of 2026-10-09 — the deployer hasn't kept an oversized stake to unload.
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.
FAQ
Which is bigger, WXDAI or WETH?
By tracked market cap: WXDAI (Gnosis) measures $44.66M and WETH (Ethereum) measures $5.41B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, WXDAI or WETH?
On the contract checks we publish: WXDAI (Gnosis) grades A and WETH (Ethereum) grades A. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have WXDAI and WETH performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-10-09 and 2026-10-17T03:15:24, the measured snapshots show WXDAI at +0.05% and WETH at −2.77%.
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, 2026-10-09→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.