HostETH vs MSUSD — price, size and safety, side by side
ETH (Ethereum) vs MSUSD (Base) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-11-12 / 2026-11-13.
ETH vs MSUSD — normalized performance, 2026-09-26 to 2026-11-12T21:16:22
| ETH | MSUSD | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.04K | $0.8095 |
| Market cap | $305.06B | $42.44M |
| 24h volume | $18.07B all venues | $1.85M all venues |
| Liquidity | $113.61M | $1.61M |
| FDV | $273.77B | $14.59M |
| Holders | — | 5,519 |
| Age (days) | 1,240 | 671 |
| Safety grade | A | B |
Where they differ
- ETH measures ~7,187× the market cap of MSUSD
- ETH measures ~70× the liquidity of MSUSD
- ETH measures ~9,790× the 24h volume of MSUSD
- over the shared window ETH moved −24.8% while MSUSD moved −7.05%
What the data says
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.
MSUSD
msUSD is Metronome Synth's synthetic dollar — you deposit volatile collateral (ETH, BTC wrappers) into the Synth engine and mint dollar-denominated synthetic positions against it. The contract 0x526728dbc96689597f85ae4cd716d4f7fccbae9d is the Base deployment our scan tracks, at $1.6 million of pool liquidity as of November 6, 2026.
The honest note, stated plainly: a synthetic dollar is not a stablecoin — msUSD can and does trade off its one-dollar mark (our current read shows it well below), because its price is set by pool dynamics and mint-redemption incentives, not by an issuer redeeming at par. That is a different risk class from USDC or USDT — hold it as a leveraged-collateral instrument, not as cash.
FAQ
Which is bigger, ETH or MSUSD?
By tracked market cap: ETH (Ethereum) measures $305.06B and MSUSD (Base) measures $42.44M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, ETH or MSUSD?
On the contract checks we publish: ETH (Ethereum) grades A and MSUSD (Base) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have ETH and MSUSD performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-26 and 2026-11-12T21:16:22, the measured snapshots show ETH at −24.8% and MSUSD at −7.05%.
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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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