HostPYUSD vs USX — price, size and safety, side by side
PYUSD (Ethereum) vs USX (Solana) — 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.
PYUSD vs USX — normalized performance, 2026-09-08 to 2026-10-17T03:15:24
| PYUSD | USX | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.9987 | $0.9995 |
| Market cap | $2.87B | $216.15M |
| 24h volume | $22.51M DEX | $490.43K DEX |
| Liquidity | $61.19M | $29.48M |
| FDV | $1.76B | $216.15M |
| Holders | 111,057 | 11,890 |
| Age (days) | 268 | — |
| Safety grade | B | A |
Where they differ
- PYUSD measures ~13× the market cap of USX
- PYUSD measures ~2.1× the liquidity of USX
- PYUSD measures ~46× the 24h volume of USX
- PYUSD measures ~9.3× the holder count of USX
What the data says
PYUSD
PYUSD is what a stablecoin looks like when it's built for regulators first and DeFi second. PayPal USD is issued not by PayPal directly but by Paxos Trust Company, a New York–chartered trust supervised by NYDFS, with reserves held in dollar deposits, U.S. Treasuries, and equivalents, attested monthly. The Ethereum deployment lives at 0x6c3ea9036406852006290770bedfcaba0e23a0e8, where HostDeFi's October 9, 2026 snapshot records roughly $61 million of tracked pool liquidity and $11 million of daily on-chain volume — modest next to USDC or USDT, in keeping with a coin whose primary life is inside PayPal and Venmo balances rather than on DEXes.
Read the contract powers through the regulated-issuer lens or you'll misread them as red flags. PYUSD's contract can mint (against dollars in), burn (against dollars out), pause transfers entirely, and freeze or even wipe balances at specific addresses under Paxos's asset-protection role. On an anonymous token, that list is a rug in waiting; here it is the legally mandated toolkit of a New York trust company, and NYDFS supervision is precisely the reason those powers exist. The trade you make holding PYUSD is explicit: maximum issuer accountability, in exchange for maximum issuer control.
USX
USX is Solana's institutional-grade stablecoin — the dollar issued by Solstice (formerly Solstice Labs) designed to plug into Solana's DeFi stack with yield-bearing variants behind it. The mint 6FrrzDk5mQARGc1TDYoyVnSyRdds1t4PbtohCD6p3tgG is the Solana deployment; our October 6, 2026 snapshot reads $29.5 million of tracked pool liquidity and grades it A — the index's top safety band.
The honest read on the grade: an A here is a contract-state verdict — mint authority revoked, freeze disabled, distribution sane — not a verdict about the issuer's reserves, which live off-chain the way every fiat-backed stablecoin's do. On Solana, USX competes in a crowded field (USDC, PYUSD, USDG, JupUSD) where the moat is integration depth rather than ticker recognition.
FAQ
Which is bigger, PYUSD or USX?
By tracked market cap: PYUSD (Ethereum) measures $2.87B and USX (Solana) measures $216.15M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, PYUSD or USX?
On the contract checks we publish: PYUSD (Ethereum) grades B and USX (Solana) grades A. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have PYUSD and USX performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-08 and 2026-10-17T03:15:24, the measured snapshots show PYUSD at −0.13% and USX at +0.02%.
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, 2026-09-08→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.