HostCBBTC vs DAI — price, size and safety, side by side
CBBTC (Ethereum) vs DAI (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.
CBBTC vs DAI — normalized performance, 2026-09-08 to 2026-09-26T18:07:24
| CBBTC | DAI | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $84.19K | $1.00 |
| Market cap | $8.28B | $4.62B |
| 24h volume | $14.11M | $2.79M |
| Liquidity | $90.85M | $73.15M |
| FDV | $4.16B | $4.62B |
| Holders | 88,613 | 707,548 |
| Age (days) | 368 | 1,526 |
| Safety grade | B | B |
Where they differ
- CBBTC measures ~1.8× the market cap of DAI
- CBBTC measures ~5.1× the 24h volume of DAI
- DAI measures ~8.0× the holder count of CBBTC
- over the shared window CBBTC moved +8.08% while DAI moved −0.01%
What the data says
CBBTC
CBBTC — "Coinbase Wrapped BTC" on Ethereum, 0xcbb7c0000ab88b473b1f5afd9ef808440eed33bf — is Coinbase's custodied bitcoin wrapper: each unit a claim on BTC held by the exchange's custody arm.
The September 26, 2026 snapshot reads $90.9 million of liquidity against an $8.06 billion market cap, roughly $5.7 million of daily volume, at an $81,540 unit price that tracks BTC spot.
DAI
DAI answered a question the other stablecoins on this site don't ask: can a dollar exist on-chain without a company behind it? Since 2019, the contract at 0x6b175474e89094c44da98b954eedeac495271d0f has held near a dollar not because anyone promises redemption at a bank, but because every DAI is minted against locked crypto collateral worth more than it, with interest rates and liquidations — governed by MakerDAO, now rebranded Sky — doing the work a treasurer would. No single company can freeze your DAI or pause the contract; that censorship-resistance is the property its holders are actually paying for.
The honest complications have grown over the years. A large share of DAI's backing has long included centralized stablecoins and real-world assets, which reimports a slice of the issuer risk the design was born to escape — the March 2023 weekend when USDC's depeg dragged DAI to roughly $0.89 alongside it made that dependency visible. And the 2024 rebrand to Sky, with its upgrade path to the newer USDS token, means DAI is now the legacy branch of its own ecosystem: still enormous, still redeemable through the same machinery, but no longer where its creators' roadmap points. Neither fact is a defect; both belong in the price of holding it.
FAQ
Which is bigger, CBBTC or DAI?
By tracked market cap: CBBTC (Ethereum) measures $8.28B and DAI (Ethereum) measures $4.62B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, CBBTC or DAI?
On the contract checks we publish: CBBTC (Ethereum) grades B and DAI (Ethereum) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have CBBTC and DAI performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-08 and 2026-09-26T18:07:24, the measured snapshots show CBBTC at +8.08% and DAI at −0.01%.
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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, 2026-09-08→2026-09-26T18:07:24; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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