HostLDO vs GRT — price, size and safety, side by side
LDO (Ethereum) vs GRT (Ethereum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-10-17 / 2026-10-16.
LDO vs GRT — normalized performance, 2026-09-27 to 2026-10-16T21:15:32
| LDO | GRT | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.3976 | $0.02465 |
| Market cap | $348.19M | $291.13M |
| 24h volume | $542.47K DEX | $27.27K DEX |
| Liquidity | $991.96K | $119.49K |
| FDV | $419.72M | $287.38M |
| Holders | — | 172,259 |
| Age (days) | 1,561 | 1,813 |
| Safety grade | B | C |
Where they differ
- LDO measures ~8.3× the liquidity of GRT
- LDO measures ~20× the 24h volume of GRT
What the data says
LDO
LDO is Lido DAO's governance token — the vote share over the largest staking pool in crypto, the operator set behind stETH and wstETH (both covered separately in this corpus). The contract 0x5a98fcbea516cf06857215779fd812ca3bef1b32 is the canonical deployment; our October 9, 2026 read shows $992 thousand of tracked pool liquidity at a $0.39 handle.
The honest mechanics: LDO is governance, not cash flow — it doesn't pay you a share of Lido's fee revenue, it buys influence over who gets to run validators and what the treasury does. Its risk is its dominance: Lido's share of staked ETH is large enough that regulators and the Ethereum community itself periodically debate capping it, and that debate is the LDO chart. A governance token on the biggest single point of staking centralization is a strange asset — know that is what it is.
GRT
GRT — 0xc944e90c64b2c07662a292be6244bdf05cda44a7 — is The Graph's work token, the asset indexers stake and delegators bond to secure the indexing layer a large share of DeFi queries run through. Five years old, it is infrastructure by tenure as much as by function.
The October 9, 2026 snapshot reads a $291.1 million market cap — FDV sits at $309.9 million, so supply is essentially fully circulating — with 172,259 holders and $119.5 thousand of tracked depth on the venues this ledger prices. The day is strong: +14.1%.
FAQ
Which is bigger, LDO or GRT?
By tracked market cap: LDO (Ethereum) measures $348.19M and GRT (Ethereum) measures $291.13M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, LDO or GRT?
On the contract checks we publish: LDO (Ethereum) grades B and GRT (Ethereum) grades C. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have LDO and GRT performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-27 and 2026-10-16T21:15:32, the measured snapshots show LDO at −16.0% and GRT at −14.1%.
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, 2026-09-27→2026-10-16T21:15:32; 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.