HostUSDE vs YOLO — price, size and safety, side by side
USDE (Ethereum) vs YOLO (Blast) — 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.
USDE vs YOLO — normalized performance, 2026-10-09 to 2026-10-17T03:15:24
| USDE | YOLO | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.00 | $0.00003565 |
| Market cap | $4.80B | — |
| 24h volume | $15.40M DEX | $4.64 DEX |
| Liquidity | $13.17M | $85.99K |
| FDV | $4.80B | $337.96K |
| Holders | 48,976 | 24,514 |
| Age (days) | 84 | 849 |
| Safety grade | B | A |
Where they differ
- USDE measures ~153× the liquidity of YOLO
- USDE measures ~3,319,583× the 24h volume of YOLO
- USDE measures ~2.0× the holder count of YOLO
- over the shared window USDE moved +0.13% while YOLO moved −6.23%
What the data says
USDE
USDe is Ethena's synthetic dollar — a stablecoin that holds its peg not with bank deposits but with a delta-neutral trade: spot crypto collateral (staked ETH, liquid stables) hedged by short perpetual futures, so the portfolio's dollar value stays flat whatever the market does. The contract 0x4c9edd5852cd905f086c759e8383e09bff1e68b3 is the canonical Ethereum deployment — USDe also exists on Solana under a different mint, where it is one of the deeper stable pools in our corpus. Our October 9, 2026 read shows $13.2 million of tracked pool liquidity on the mainnet venues.
The honest mechanics: USDe's yield is not magic — it is the funding-rate spread between staking yield and the perp market's willingness to pay longs, and that spread can and does go negative. When funding flips, Ethena pays the hedge instead of earning it, and the carry can invert into a slow bleed. The second layer is counterparty: the short positions sit on offshore exchanges through settlement custody, so exchange failures or frozen collateral are real, non-theoretical risks — the design survived the October 2025 liquidation cascade, which is evidence, not a guarantee. It is also not the same risk shape as UST: USDe is fully collateralized at inception; the failure mode is a sustained negative-funding grind plus a custody break, not a mint-redeem death spiral.
YOLO
YOLO passes the check that trips up most risky tokens — its contract controls. Minting simply isn't in the contract, so dilution isn't on the table, and with no transfer pause in the contract either, your exit stays open whenever you choose to take it. That leaves YOLO at a healthy 92/100 as of 2026-10-09, with only normal market risk left to price in.
Looking at the market data, YOLO shows workable liquidity of $85.99K, 24,514 holders and an established record at 849 days as of 2026-10-09. Read $85.99K of depth against the size you intend to trade rather than in isolation — it's the pool your exit has to pass through, so it doubles as a sensible position ceiling. 24,514 holders is a decent base; just remember the number alone doesn't reveal how much the top wallets control, so weigh it with the concentration figure. The creator's own position is small — <0.01% of supply as of 2026-10-09, comfortably under the 5% line the scanners flag — which is what you want to see.
FAQ
Which is bigger, USDE or YOLO?
By tracked market cap: USDE (Ethereum) measures $4.80B and YOLO (Blast) measures — — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, USDE or YOLO?
On the contract checks we publish: USDE (Ethereum) grades B and YOLO (Blast) grades A. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have USDE and YOLO performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-10-09 and 2026-10-17T03:15:24, the measured snapshots show USDE at +0.13% and YOLO at −6.23%.
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, 2026-10-09→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.