HostWETH vs GHST — price, size and safety, side by side
WETH (Ethereum) vs GHST (Base) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-10-17 / 2026-09-28.
WETH vs GHST — normalized performance, 2026-09-14 to 2026-09-27
| WETH | GHST | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.42K | $0.1014 |
| Market cap | $5.41B | — |
| 24h volume | $462.86M DEX | $3.20M DEX |
| Liquidity | $902.53M | $16.50M |
| FDV | $5.39B | $396.29M |
| Holders | 3,680,746 | 31 |
| Age (days) | 1,727 | 237 |
| Safety grade | A | A |
Where they differ
- WETH measures ~55× the liquidity of GHST
- WETH measures ~145× the 24h volume of GHST
- WETH measures ~118,734× the holder count of GHST
- over the shared window WETH moved +5.87% while GHST moved 0.00%
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.
GHST
Start with the discrepancy, because on this row it is the useful part: the venue feed names this Base deployment "So4," while the ticker and slug in our index carry GHST — the name Aavegotchi's long-running game token trades under. At 0xac780b6e4ee50585df265c7766cc2bed51e43fb8, our October 6, 2026 snapshot reads about $16.5 million of tracked pool liquidity against roughly $3.2 million of recorded daily volume — a working level of turnover for a mid-cap game token.
Name mismatches between a feed and an index happen for boring reasons (a token rebrands upstream, a feed carries a different label) and for dangerous ones (a different asset wearing a famous ticker). The address is the arbiter: Aavegotchi's GHST is a known, years-old deployment, and whether this contract is the genuine Base deployment or an impersonation riding the name is a fact the address — never the ticker — settles. The live scanner above reads the contract directly and is the fastest way to confirm which case this is.
FAQ
Which is bigger, WETH or GHST?
By tracked market cap: WETH (Ethereum) measures $5.41B and GHST (Base) measures — — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, WETH or GHST?
On the contract checks we publish: WETH (Ethereum) grades A and GHST (Base) grades A. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have WETH and GHST performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-14 and 2026-09-27, the measured snapshots show WETH at +5.87% and GHST at 0.00%.
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, 2026-09-14→2026-09-27; 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.