HostUSDC vs AUSD — price, size and safety, side by side
USDC (Solana) vs AUSD (Monad) — 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.
USDC vs AUSD — normalized performance, 2026-09-15 to 2026-10-15T21:43:45
| USDC | AUSD | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.9998 | $0.9991 |
| Market cap | $8.60B | $176.59M |
| 24h volume | $1.90B DEX | $721.99K DEX |
| Liquidity | $464.95M | $2.45M |
| FDV | $8.60B | $108.19M |
| Holders | 5,248,202 | 10,392 |
| Age (days) | — | 324 |
| Safety grade | A | B |
Where they differ
- USDC measures ~49× the market cap of AUSD
- USDC measures ~190× the liquidity of AUSD
- USDC measures ~2,631× the 24h volume of AUSD
- USDC measures ~505× the holder count of AUSD
What the data says
USDC
USDC is the dollar most of Solana actually trades in, and judging it takes a different lens than the one that works on memecoins. This is a centralized, fiat-backed stablecoin: Circle issues it, holds the reserves behind it, and publishes monthly attestations of those reserves. On Solana it lives at mint EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v, where the October 6, 2026 snapshot records about $8.6 billion of market capitalization, roughly 5.25 million holders, and around $465 million of tracked pool liquidity — the deepest dollar venue on the chain.
Here is the part that confuses people who learned token safety from rug-checkers: USDC's mint and freeze authorities are live, on purpose, permanently. Circle has to mint new USDC when dollars come in and burn it when they go out — that is what "backed" means mechanically — and it maintains the ability to freeze addresses to comply with sanctions and court orders, which it has used. On a memecoin, a live mint authority is the classic rug lever; on a fiat-backed stablecoin it is the product working as designed. The risk hasn't vanished — it has moved from an anonymous deployer to a regulated company, which is a trade most holders are knowingly making.
AUSD
AUSD is Agora's institutional dollar — a stablecoin built for treasury-grade backing (State Street custodian, VanEck management) that targets the same regulated-treasury ground as USDC and PYUSD. The deployment 0x00000000efe302beaa2b3e6e1b18d08d69a9012a is the Monad deployment — the same multichain address AUSD uses on every chain it lands on; our October 9, 2026 snapshot reads $2 million of tracked pool liquidity.
The honest shape: AUSD competes on custody pedigree rather than yield gimmicks — which means its risk profile is the boring kind (issuer solvency, attestation cadence, redemption terms) that is easier to verify but no smaller for being verifiable. AUSD also exists on Solana under a different mint; this Monad deployment carries the same canonical multichain address as its siblings.
FAQ
Which is bigger, USDC or AUSD?
By tracked market cap: USDC (Solana) measures $8.60B and AUSD (Monad) measures $176.59M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, USDC or AUSD?
On the contract checks we publish: USDC (Solana) grades A and AUSD (Monad) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have USDC and AUSD performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-15 and 2026-10-15T21:43:45, the measured snapshots show USDC at −0.01% and AUSD at +0.19%.
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, 2026-09-15→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.