NexDAI vs CHIP — price, size and safety, side by side
DAI (Ethereum) vs CHIP (Arbitrum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-11-13 / 2026-11-15.
DAI vs CHIP — normalized performance, 2026-09-08 to 2026-11-13T12:15:58
| DAI | CHIP | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.9984 | $0.027 |
| Market cap | $4.50B | $73.99M |
| 24h volume | $191.22M all venues | $11.10M all venues |
| Liquidity | $46.17M | $1.31M |
| FDV | $4.49B | $369.95M |
| Holders | 710,510 | 5,669 |
| Age (days) | 1,526 | 171 |
| Safety grade | B | B |
Where they differ
- DAI measures ~61× the market cap of CHIP
- DAI measures ~35× the liquidity of CHIP
- DAI measures ~17× the 24h volume of CHIP
- DAI measures ~125× the holder count of CHIP
- over the shared window DAI moved −0.17% while CHIP moved −35.5%
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.
CHIP
CHIP is a mid-cap token on Arbitrum: the contract 0x0c1c1c109fe34733fca54b82d7b46b75cfb71f6e is what our scan tracks, with $1.3 million of pool liquidity as of November 6, 2026 — the deepest pool in this batch's EVM tier.
Same verifiability note as the rest of this tier: the liquidity figure is a real on-chain fact and a functional market, but it is not a credential — CHIP-tickered tokens exist on several chains, so confirm this contract is the project you mean to hold before trading. Deep pool, ordinary verification burden.
FAQ
Which is bigger, DAI or CHIP?
By tracked market cap: DAI (Ethereum) measures $4.50B and CHIP (Arbitrum) measures $73.99M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, DAI or CHIP?
On the contract checks we publish: DAI (Ethereum) grades B and CHIP (Arbitrum) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have DAI and CHIP performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-08 and 2026-11-13T12:15:58, the measured snapshots show DAI at −0.17% and CHIP at −35.5%.
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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→2026-11-13T12:15:58; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
Figures are dated on-chain snapshots, not a live feed. Safety grades are structural checks — not investment advice. Free · no signup · a NexFlow product.