HostDEGEN vs TQQQX — price, size and safety, side by side
DEGEN (Base) vs TQQQX (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.
DEGEN vs TQQQX — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-10-15T21:43:45
| DEGEN | TQQQX | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.000929 | $69.22 |
| Market cap | $36.03M | $45.65M |
| 24h volume | $68.97K DEX | $5.99K DEX |
| Liquidity | $723.35K | $51.67K |
| FDV | $36.96M | $45.65M |
| Holders | 1,182,333 | 725 |
| Age (days) | 1,003 | — |
| Safety grade | B | C |
Where they differ
- DEGEN measures ~14× the liquidity of TQQQX
- DEGEN measures ~12× the 24h volume of TQQQX
- DEGEN measures ~1,631× the holder count of TQQQX
- over the shared window DEGEN moved −16.7% while TQQQX moved −6.09%
What the data says
DEGEN
DEGEN is the tipping token that grew out of Farcaster — the /degen channel's community currency that became one of the broadest token distributions on Base. The deployment at 0x4ed4e862860bed51a9570b96d89af5e1b0efefed prices a market cap of $36.0 million across 1,182,333 wallets on the October 9, 2026 snapshot — the widest holder base in this batch by a wide margin.
The distribution is what a social token should look like: the top ten wallets hold about 61.8% — concentrated but nothing like the 95%+ float the clone coins carry — and the creator wallet holds effectively nothing. The flagged lever is real though: the contract can still mint new supply, so the circulating figure is a floor, and the tracked pool of $723.3 thousand is thin against the cap.
TQQQX
TQQQX is the xStock for TQQQ — a tokenized claim on a 3x daily-leveraged Nasdaq-100 ETF, which makes it the most aggressive instrument in the xStock family. The mint XsjQP3iMAaQ3kQScQKthQpx9ALRbjKAjQtHg6TFomoc is what our scan tracks: $45.6 million market cap, $52 thousand of liquidity and 725 holders as of October 6, 2026.
Two honest warnings stack here. The family one: issuer custody plus after-hours quoting. The product one is bigger: TQQQ resets its leverage daily, so the tokenized claim inherits volatility decay — over choppy multi-week stretches it can underperform naive 3x expectations even when the index ends flat. A tokenized leveraged ETF is a trading instrument, not a hold; the cap figures describe supply, not suitability.
FAQ
Which is bigger, DEGEN or TQQQX?
By tracked market cap: DEGEN (Base) measures $36.03M and TQQQX (Solana) measures $45.65M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, DEGEN or TQQQX?
On the contract checks we publish: DEGEN (Base) grades B and TQQQX (Solana) grades C. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have DEGEN and TQQQX performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-10-15T21:43:45, the measured snapshots show DEGEN at −16.7% and TQQQX at −6.09%.
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.