HostDAI vs CTM — price, size and safety, side by side
DAI (Ethereum) vs CTM (Ethereum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-09-27 / 2026-09-26.
DAI vs CTM — normalized performance, 2026-09-08 to 2026-09-26T18:07:24
| DAI | CTM | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.00 | $0.2599 |
| Market cap | $4.62B | $1.06B |
| 24h volume | $2.79M | $1.89M |
| Liquidity | $73.15M | $1.76M |
| FDV | $4.62B | $77.01M |
| Holders | 707,548 | 4,956 |
| Age (days) | 1,526 | 174 |
| Safety grade | B | B |
Where they differ
- DAI measures ~4.4× the market cap of CTM
- DAI measures ~42× the liquidity of CTM
- DAI measures ~143× the holder count of CTM
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.
CTM
c8ntinuum (CTM) is a small-cap multi-chain protocol token whose contract 0xc8fb80fcc03f699c70ff0cc08c09106288888888 is deliberately vanity-shaped — the trailing 888888 is part of the address, not a typo. Our September 26, 2026 read shows $1.8 million of tracked pool liquidity, which is real depth for a token at this profile.
The honest note: at this scale, everything hinges on whether the protocol ships and sustains — the liquidity is present, but the holder base and the revenue surface are what to check before treating it as more than a speculative position.
FAQ
Which is bigger, DAI or CTM?
By tracked market cap: DAI (Ethereum) measures $4.62B and CTM (Ethereum) measures $1.06B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, DAI or CTM?
On the contract checks we publish: DAI (Ethereum) grades B and CTM (Ethereum) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have DAI and CTM performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-08 and 2026-09-26T18:07:24, the measured snapshots show DAI at −0.01% and CTM at −0.99%.
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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.
Figures are dated on-chain snapshots, not a live feed. Safety grades are structural checks — not investment advice. Free · no signup · a NexFlow product.