HostDAI vs DORY — price, size and safety, side by side
DAI (Ethereum) vs DORY (Arbitrum) — 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 DORY — normalized performance, 2026-09-08 to 2026-09-27T18:22:06
| DAI | DORY | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.00 | $36.49 |
| Market cap | $4.62B | — |
| 24h volume | $2.79M | $1.11M |
| Liquidity | $73.15M | $1.18M |
| FDV | $4.62B | $8.94M |
| Holders | 707,548 | 36,746 |
| Age (days) | 1,526 | 377 |
| Safety grade | B | B |
Where they differ
- DAI measures ~62× the liquidity of DORY
- DAI measures ~2.5× the 24h volume of DORY
- DAI measures ~19× the holder count of DORY
- over the shared window DAI moved +0.35% while DORY moved −27.6%
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.
DORY
Dory is an Arbitrum token tracked at the contract 0x33b49f2264e85bb124d2730dc180182717d436ae; our September 27, 2026 snapshot reads $1.2 million of tracked pool liquidity — respectable depth for a name most readers won't recognize.
The honest posture for a mid-cap without a story attached is the checklist itself: who deploys it, whether mint and freeze controls are clean, how concentrated the holders are, whether the depth is a few big wallets or broad participation. Those are exactly the checks this page surfaces, and they're the difference between "unknown but clean" and "unknown and concentrated."
FAQ
Which is bigger, DAI or DORY?
By tracked market cap: DAI (Ethereum) measures $4.62B and DORY (Arbitrum) measures — — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, DAI or DORY?
On the contract checks we publish: DAI (Ethereum) grades B and DORY (Arbitrum) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have DAI and DORY performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-08 and 2026-09-27T18:22:06, the measured snapshots show DAI at +0.35% and DORY at −27.6%.
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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→2026-09-27T18:22:06; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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