HostWETH vs BUSD — price, size and safety, side by side
WETH (Ethereum) vs BUSD (Linea) — 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.
WETH vs BUSD — normalized performance, 2026-10-09 to 2026-10-17T03:15:24
| WETH | BUSD | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.42K | $0.997 |
| Market cap | $5.41B | — |
| 24h volume | $462.86M DEX | $536.06 DEX |
| Liquidity | $902.53M | $56.44K |
| FDV | $5.39B | $111.95K |
| Holders | 3,680,746 | 94,668 |
| Age (days) | 1,727 | 1,177 |
| Safety grade | A | A |
Where they differ
- WETH measures ~15,990× the liquidity of BUSD
- WETH measures ~863,453× the 24h volume of BUSD
- WETH measures ~39× the holder count of BUSD
What the data says
WETH
WETH is the oldest load-bearing contract in DeFi. Deployed in December 2017 as WETH9, the contract at 0xc02aaa39b223fe8d0a0e5c4f27ead9083c756cc2 does exactly one thing: wrap ETH — which predates the ERC-20 standard and doesn't conform to it — into a token that does, redeemable one-for-one, instantly, by anyone, forever. It has no owner, no admin functions, no upgrade path, and no pause switch. Nearly every DEX trade, lending market, and NFT sale on Ethereum has settled through it at some point; it is less a token than a piece of the chain's plumbing.
That architecture is why the usual checklist comes back almost empty. There is no team to rug, no supply policy to abuse — WETH supply is simply however much ETH is currently deposited in the contract, minted on wrap and burned on unwrap. The failure mode people theorize about (the contract holding less ETH than WETH outstanding) would require a bug that eight-plus years of the highest-value adversarial testing in crypto has not found. HostDeFi's October 9, 2026 snapshot shows roughly $903 million of tracked pool liquidity and $73 million of daily volume on this deployment, and both understate reality — WETH is one side of thousands of pools our sample doesn't enumerate.
BUSD
BUSD clears the most important contract test cleanly. 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. Clearing both of those in one go is a strong sign, and it's what puts BUSD at 92/100 as of the 2026-10-09 snapshot.
Here's where BUSD stands today: workable liquidity of $56.44K, 94,668 wallets holding and an established record at 1,177 days as of 2026-10-09. Treat $56.44K as the room your trade has to work in — the smaller the pool relative to your size, the more your own order moves the price. A 94,668-holder base is a fair start, but distribution matters more than the count — check how much sits in the largest wallets before leaning on it. Reassuringly, the wallet that created BUSD holds under 5% of supply (<0.01%) as of 2026-10-09 — the deployer hasn't kept an oversized stake to unload.
FAQ
Which is bigger, WETH or BUSD?
By tracked market cap: WETH (Ethereum) measures $5.41B and BUSD (Linea) measures — — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, WETH or BUSD?
On the contract checks we publish: WETH (Ethereum) grades A and BUSD (Linea) grades A. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have WETH and BUSD performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-10-09 and 2026-10-17T03:15:24, the measured snapshots show WETH at −2.77% and BUSD at +0.11%.
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.