HostALUSD vs ETH — price, size and safety, side by side
ALUSD (Optimism) vs ETH (Ethereum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-11-15 / 2026-11-12.
ALUSD vs ETH — normalized performance, 2026-09-26 to 2026-11-12T21:16:22
| ALUSD | ETH | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.9622 | $2.04K |
| Market cap | $10.41M | $305.06B |
| 24h volume | $127.49K all venues | $18.07B all venues |
| Liquidity | $361.79K | $113.61M |
| FDV | $2.03M | $273.77B |
| Holders | 5,630 | — |
| Age (days) | 1,181 | 1,240 |
| Safety grade | B | A |
Where they differ
- ETH measures ~29,315× the market cap of ALUSD
- ETH measures ~314× the liquidity of ALUSD
- ETH measures ~141,746× the 24h volume of ALUSD
- over the shared window ALUSD moved +0.68% while ETH moved −24.8%
What the data says
ALUSD
ALUSD at 0xcb8fa9a76b8e203d8c3797bf438d8fb81ea3326a is Alchemix's USD on Optimism — the dollar that backs the protocol's self-repaying loan structure, where deposited collateral's yield amortizes the borrow. The November 6, 2026 snapshot prices a $10.4 million asset-wide market cap against a $2.0 million fully-diluted read of the local float of 1.7 million units — a small Optimism slice of a multi-chain stable.
The local book is deeper than it looks and quieter than it should be: $362 thousand of tracked depth reads deep against that float, while $1.9 thousand of 24-hour volume is a nearly dormant tape — the pool exists; the flow mostly does not. For an exit-sized holder that pairing is the real information: depth on paper, and a tape that rarely tests it.
ETH
This page tracks native Ether through the 0xeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee placeholder — the convention several DEX aggregators and data APIs use to mean "the chain's own asset" in pair data, since ETH predates ERC-20 and has no contract of its own. Our November 6, 2026 snapshot reads about $113.6 million of tracked pool liquidity attributed to this label — real pools holding real ETH, with one bookkeeping caveat: the same native-asset convention shows up on other chains in this index — Arbitrum's own Ether row uses the all-zeroes address — so per-chain reads of "the ETH row" never quite mean the same slice of pools.
The safety verdict here is the simplest in the corpus: the asset is ETH — no issuer, no mint key, no admin, nothing to rug at the contract layer. The risks are the asset's own — price, network, the L1 itself.
FAQ
Which is bigger, ALUSD or ETH?
By tracked market cap: ALUSD (Optimism) measures $10.41M and ETH (Ethereum) measures $305.06B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, ALUSD or ETH?
On the contract checks we publish: ALUSD (Optimism) grades B and ETH (Ethereum) grades A. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have ALUSD and ETH performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-26 and 2026-11-12T21:16:22, the measured snapshots show ALUSD at +0.68% and ETH at −24.8%.
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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, 2026-09-26→2026-11-12T21:16:22; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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