HostWETH vs FWWETH — price, size and safety, side by side
WETH (Ethereum) vs FWWETH (Ethereum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-10-17 / 2026-10-17.
WETH vs FWWETH — normalized performance, 2026-09-08 to 2026-10-17T03:15:24
| WETH | FWWETH | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.42K | $2.42K |
| Market cap | $5.41B | — |
| 24h volume | $462.86M DEX | $6.38M DEX |
| Liquidity | $902.53M | $213.41M |
| FDV | $5.39B | $268.05M |
| Holders | 3,680,746 | 244 |
| Age (days) | 1,727 | 536 |
| Safety grade | A | E |
Where they differ
- WETH measures ~4.2× the liquidity of FWWETH
- WETH measures ~73× the 24h volume of FWWETH
- WETH measures ~15,085× the holder count of FWWETH
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.
FWWETH
FWWETH shows the same wrapped-wrapper shape as its Bitcoin-named sibling: about $213 million of tracked pool liquidity in our October 9, 2026 snapshot — impressive depth for a token whose brand leaves almost no public trail — against roughly $5 million of recorded daily volume. That turnover is livelier than its sibling's but still thin against depth of that claimed size, and on an asset this opaque the figure deserves skepticism rather than credit.
Mechanically this is a claim on wrapped ETH, meaning the holder sits two contracts away from Ether: WETH itself, plus whatever wrapper contract issued this receipt at 0xa250cc729bb3323e7933022a67b52200fe354767. Each layer is a custody you inherit — the wrapper's mint powers, redemption mechanics, and owner controls are what actually determine safety, and our market-structure snapshot assessed none of them. The B grade describes the pool's shape; it says nothing about whether the claim behind it is honored.
FAQ
Which is bigger, WETH or FWWETH?
By tracked market cap: WETH (Ethereum) measures $5.41B and FWWETH (Ethereum) measures — — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, WETH or FWWETH?
On the contract checks we publish: WETH (Ethereum) grades A and FWWETH (Ethereum) grades E. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have WETH and FWWETH performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-08 and 2026-10-17T03:15:24, the measured snapshots show WETH at −2.19% and FWWETH at −2.17%.
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.