HostALUSD vs WSTETH — price, size and safety, side by side
ALUSD (Optimism) vs WSTETH (Ethereum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-09-26 / 2026-09-27.
ALUSD vs WSTETH — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-26T18:07:24
| ALUSD | WSTETH | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.9538 | $3.38K |
| Market cap | $9.99M | $12.53B |
| 24h volume | $1.92K | $2.66M |
| Liquidity | $1.14M | $50.30M |
| FDV | $1.61M | $12.44B |
| Holders | 5,630 | 39,070 |
| Age (days) | 1,181 | 1,492 |
| Safety grade | B | B |
Where they differ
- WSTETH measures ~1,254× the market cap of ALUSD
- WSTETH measures ~44× the liquidity of ALUSD
- WSTETH measures ~1,386× the 24h volume of ALUSD
- WSTETH measures ~6.9× the holder count of ALUSD
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 September 26, 2026 snapshot prices a $10.0 million asset-wide market cap against a $1.6 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: $1.1 million 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.
WSTETH
wstETH is stETH made legible to DeFi — the same claim on Lido-staked Ether, wrapped so the balance stops moving: where stETH re-bases your token count upward each day, wstETH holds a fixed count and lets the exchange rate against stETH do the appreciating. That is the shape lending markets, bridges and LPs need, which is why the contract at 0x7f39c581f595b53c5cb19bd0b3f8da6c935e2ca0 became the canonical collateral form — our September 27, 2026 snapshot reads $50.3 million of tracked pool liquidity on it.
The verdict therefore inherits stETH's, plus one wrapper-layer note. You hold a claim on staked ETH via Lido — subject to its validator set, Ethereum's exit queue, and stETH's own depeg memory (June 2022, when it traded visibly under par) — and the price shown for wstETH is stETH's price times a steadily growing conversion rate, so it will always quote above ETH while tracking correctly. Nothing about that is a defect; it is the mechanic to understand before reading the quote as a premium.
FAQ
Which is bigger, ALUSD or WSTETH?
By tracked market cap: ALUSD (Optimism) measures $9.99M and WSTETH (Ethereum) measures $12.53B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, ALUSD or WSTETH?
On the contract checks we publish: ALUSD (Optimism) grades B and WSTETH (Ethereum) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have ALUSD and WSTETH performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-26T18:07:24, the measured snapshots show ALUSD at −0.24% and WSTETH at −0.89%.
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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, 2026-09-21→2026-09-26T18:07:24; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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