NexDAI vs BASED — price, size and safety, side by side
DAI (Ethereum) vs BASED (BNB Chain) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-11-13 / 2026-11-10.
DAI vs BASED — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-11-10T21:13:10
| DAI | BASED | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.9984 | $0.04119 |
| Market cap | $4.50B | $10.62M |
| 24h volume | $191.22M all venues | $7.77M all venues |
| Liquidity | $46.17M | $662.38K |
| FDV | $4.49B | $3.97M |
| Holders | 710,510 | — |
| Age (days) | 1,526 | 195 |
| Safety grade | B | B |
Where they differ
- DAI measures ~424× the market cap of BASED
- DAI measures ~70× the liquidity of BASED
- DAI measures ~25× the 24h volume of BASED
- over the shared window DAI moved −0.01% while BASED moved −40.1%
What the data says
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.
BASED
BASED at 0x1d28d989f9e3ccb8b15d0cec601734514f958e4d — Based Token — is a 177-day-old BNB Chain book priced at a $10.6 million asset-wide market cap against a $4.0 million fully-diluted figure priced on 86.2 million local units at the November 6, 2026 snapshot.
The local book is workable and the tape is working: $662.4 thousand of tracked depth on $1.3 million of 24-hour volume. Contract-level controls were not assessed in this snapshot.
FAQ
Which is bigger, DAI or BASED?
By tracked market cap: DAI (Ethereum) measures $4.50B and BASED (BNB Chain) measures $10.62M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, DAI or BASED?
On the contract checks we publish: DAI (Ethereum) grades B and BASED (BNB Chain) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have DAI and BASED performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-11-10T21:13:10, the measured snapshots show DAI at −0.01% and BASED at −40.1%.
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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→2026-11-10T21:13:10; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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