HostWETH vs USDT — price, size and safety, side by side
WETH (Ethereum) vs USDT (BNB Chain) — 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 USDT — normalized performance, 2026-09-15 to 2026-10-17T03:15:24
| WETH | USDT | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.42K | $0.9991 |
| Market cap | $5.41B | $9.19B |
| 24h volume | $462.86M DEX | $1.12B DEX |
| Liquidity | $902.53M | $548.60M |
| FDV | $5.39B | $9.19B |
| Holders | 3,680,746 | 80,624,971 |
| Age (days) | 1,727 | 311 |
| Safety grade | A | B |
Where they differ
- USDT measures ~1.7× the market cap of WETH
- WETH measures ~1.6× the liquidity of USDT
- USDT measures ~2.4× the 24h volume of WETH
- USDT measures ~22× the holder count of WETH
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.
USDT
USDT on BSC is Tether's dollar on the chain that still clears a meaningful share of stablecoin volume — issued by Binance's peg mechanism under the BEP-20 standard at 0x55d398326f99059ff775485246999027b3197955, the canonical BSC mint. Our October 9, 2026 snapshot reads $548.6 million of tracked pool liquidity.
The honest chain note: this is a pegged representation — the reserve sits with Tether, and the BSC contract is Binance's wrapped issuance of that claim, not a second Tether mint. That makes its risk profile two-layered: Tether's attestation cadence underneath, plus the bridge-custody layer Binance operates on top. For most users the distinction never matters; for anyone holding size it is the entire question.
FAQ
Which is bigger, WETH or USDT?
By tracked market cap: WETH (Ethereum) measures $5.41B and USDT (BNB Chain) measures $9.19B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, WETH or USDT?
On the contract checks we publish: WETH (Ethereum) grades A and USDT (BNB Chain) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have WETH and USDT performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-15 and 2026-10-17T03:15:24, the measured snapshots show WETH at +0.83% and USDT at +0.14%.
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→2026-10-17T03:15:24; 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.