HostDAI vs ETH — price, size and safety, side by side
DAI (Ethereum) vs ETH (Ethereum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-11-13 / 2026-11-12.
DAI vs ETH — normalized performance, 2026-09-26 to 2026-11-12T21:16:22
| DAI | ETH | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.9984 | $2.04K |
| Market cap | $4.50B | $305.06B |
| 24h volume | $191.22M all venues | $18.07B all venues |
| Liquidity | $46.17M | $113.61M |
| FDV | $4.49B | $273.77B |
| Holders | 710,510 | — |
| Age (days) | 1,526 | 1,240 |
| Safety grade | B | A |
Where they differ
- ETH measures ~68× the market cap of DAI
- ETH measures ~2.5× the liquidity of DAI
- ETH measures ~95× the 24h volume of DAI
- over the shared window DAI moved −0.26% while ETH moved −24.8%
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.
ETH
This page tracks native Ether through the 0xeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee placeholder — the convention several DEX aggregators and data APIs use to mean "the chain's own asset" in pair data, since ETH predates ERC-20 and has no contract of its own. Our November 6, 2026 snapshot reads about $113.6 million of tracked pool liquidity attributed to this label — real pools holding real ETH, with one bookkeeping caveat: the same native-asset convention shows up on other chains in this index — Arbitrum's own Ether row uses the all-zeroes address — so per-chain reads of "the ETH row" never quite mean the same slice of pools.
The safety verdict here is the simplest in the corpus: the asset is ETH — no issuer, no mint key, no admin, nothing to rug at the contract layer. The risks are the asset's own — price, network, the L1 itself.
FAQ
Which is bigger, DAI or ETH?
By tracked market cap: DAI (Ethereum) measures $4.50B and ETH (Ethereum) measures $305.06B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, DAI or ETH?
On the contract checks we publish: DAI (Ethereum) grades B and ETH (Ethereum) grades A. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have DAI and ETH performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-26 and 2026-11-12T21:16:22, the measured snapshots show DAI at −0.26% and ETH at −24.8%.
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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, 2026-09-26→2026-11-12T21:16:22; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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