HostDAI vs BTCB — price, size and safety, side by side
DAI (Ethereum) vs BTCB (BNB Chain) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-09-27 / 2026-09-27.
DAI vs BTCB — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-27T15:10:18
| DAI | BTCB | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.9983 | $84.60K |
| Market cap | $4.59B | — |
| 24h volume | $3.88M | $23.07M |
| Liquidity | $73.32M | $70.32M |
| FDV | $4.59B | $5.52B |
| Holders | 706,985 | 1,696,583 |
| Age (days) | 1,526 | 311 |
| Safety grade | B | B |
Where they differ
- BTCB measures ~5.9× the 24h volume of DAI
- BTCB measures ~2.4× the holder count of DAI
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.
BTCB
BTCB Token is Bitcoin held by a custodian and re-issued on BNB Chain — a pegged-Bitcoin receipt trading at 0x7130d2a12b9bcbfae4f2634d864a1ee1ce3ead9c. The snapshot is dated September 27, 2026, 311 days into the row's tracked life.
Only 65.3 thousand tokens exist on this deployment, and they trade heavily: $111.0 million moved in the last day against $70.3 million of tracked pool liquidity — turnover above the pool, the signature of an arbitrage-driven asset that changes hands more often than it is held. The pool reads deep in absolute terms.
FAQ
Which is bigger, DAI or BTCB?
By tracked market cap: DAI (Ethereum) measures $4.59B and BTCB (BNB Chain) measures — — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, DAI or BTCB?
On the contract checks we publish: DAI (Ethereum) grades B and BTCB (BNB Chain) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have DAI and BTCB performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-27T15:10:18, the measured snapshots show DAI at +0.08% and BTCB at +0.35%.
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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→2026-09-27T15:10:18; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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