HostDAI vs WPOL — price, size and safety, side by side
DAI (Ethereum) vs WPOL (Polygon) — 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 WPOL — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-27T15:10:18
| DAI | WPOL | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.9983 | $0.1211 |
| Market cap | $4.59B | $22.12M |
| 24h volume | $3.88M | $8.14M |
| Liquidity | $73.32M | $7.27M |
| FDV | $4.59B | $22.15M |
| Holders | 706,985 | 843,463 |
| Age (days) | 1,526 | 1,687 |
| Safety grade | B | A |
Where they differ
- DAI measures ~207× the market cap of WPOL
- DAI measures ~10× the liquidity of WPOL
- WPOL measures ~2.1× the 24h volume of DAI
- over the shared window DAI moved +0.08% while WPOL moved +8.33%
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.
WPOL
WPOL at 0x0d500b1d8e8ef31e21c99d1db9a6444d3adf1270 is the gas token's wrapped twin — the ERC-20 face of POL on its own chain, the contract long-timers knew as WMATIC before the token migration renamed what it wraps. One POL in, one WPOL out; the wrapper exists because DeFi needs an ERC-20 and the gas token is not one.
The September 27, 2026 snapshot is as clean as this index prints: the contract cannot mint new supply, cannot freeze balances, and is not a proxy — grade A, on a wrapper whose entire job is to be boring. 843,463 wallets hold it; the market cap reads $22.1 million across 206.7 million wrapped units, and $7.3 million of tracked depth is deep for that size. Daily turnover of $16.1 million is the sound of plumbing doing work — a gas wrapper trades constantly because everything routes through it.
FAQ
Which is bigger, DAI or WPOL?
By tracked market cap: DAI (Ethereum) measures $4.59B and WPOL (Polygon) measures $22.12M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, DAI or WPOL?
On the contract checks we publish: DAI (Ethereum) grades B and WPOL (Polygon) grades A. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have DAI and WPOL performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-27T15:10:18, the measured snapshots show DAI at +0.08% and WPOL at +8.33%.
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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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