HostDAI vs LGNS — price, size and safety, side by side
DAI (Ethereum) vs LGNS (Polygon) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-10-17 / 2026-10-15.
DAI vs LGNS — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-10-15T21:43:45
| DAI | LGNS | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.9976 | $0.3325 |
| Market cap | $4.56B | — |
| 24h volume | $10.35M DEX | $13.17M DEX |
| Liquidity | $53.63M | $12.92M |
| FDV | $4.55B | $2.55B |
| Holders | 710,510 | 2,542,238 |
| Age (days) | 1,526 | 947 |
| Safety grade | B | C |
Where they differ
- DAI measures ~4.1× the liquidity of LGNS
- LGNS measures ~3.6× the holder count of DAI
- over the shared window DAI moved +0.29% while LGNS moved −70.5%
What the data says
DAI
DAI answered a question the other stablecoins on this site don't ask: can a dollar exist on-chain without a company behind it? Since 2019, the contract at 0x6b175474e89094c44da98b954eedeac495271d0f has held near a dollar not because anyone promises redemption at a bank, but because every DAI is minted against locked crypto collateral worth more than it, with interest rates and liquidations — governed by MakerDAO, now rebranded Sky — doing the work a treasurer would. No single company can freeze your DAI or pause the contract; that censorship-resistance is the property its holders are actually paying for.
The honest complications have grown over the years. A large share of DAI's backing has long included centralized stablecoins and real-world assets, which reimports a slice of the issuer risk the design was born to escape — the March 2023 weekend when USDC's depeg dragged DAI to roughly $0.89 alongside it made that dependency visible. And the 2024 rebrand to Sky, with its upgrade path to the newer USDS token, means DAI is now the legacy branch of its own ecosystem: still enormous, still redeemable through the same machinery, but no longer where its creators' roadmap points. Neither fact is a defect; both belong in the price of holding it.
LGNS
Longinus (LGNS) is a Polygon token at 0xeb51d9a39ad5eef215dc0bf39a8821ff804a0f01, 929 days old at this snapshot dated October 9, 2026 — one of the older contracts the index tracks on the chain.
The row shows $12.9 million of tracked liquidity with $6.7 million traded in the last day across a supply of 6.3 billion tokens — a deep, active market by the numbers this index measured.
FAQ
Which is bigger, DAI or LGNS?
By tracked market cap: DAI (Ethereum) measures $4.56B and LGNS (Polygon) measures — — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, DAI or LGNS?
On the contract checks we publish: DAI (Ethereum) grades B and LGNS (Polygon) grades C. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have DAI and LGNS performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-10-15T21:43:45, the measured snapshots show DAI at +0.29% and LGNS at −70.5%.
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.