HostGTC vs RETH — price, size and safety, side by side
GTC (Optimism) vs RETH (Ethereum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-11-15T15:15:30 / 2026-11-13T12:15:58.
GTC vs RETH — normalized performance, 2026-09-26 to 2026-11-13
| GTC | RETH | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.1378 | $2.35K |
| Market cap | — | $807.34M |
| 24h volume | $497 DEX | $62.88K all venues |
| Liquidity | $17.63K | $8.39M |
| FDV | $111.80K | $807.34M |
| Holders | 10,070 | 21,853 |
| Age (days) | 1,584 | 1,507 |
| Safety grade | D | B |
Where they differ
- RETH measures ~476× the liquidity of GTC
- RETH measures ~127× the 24h volume of GTC
- RETH measures ~2.2× the holder count of GTC
- over the shared window GTC moved +90.6% while RETH moved −25.3%
What the data says
GTC
GTC on Optimism at 0x1eba7a6a72c894026cd654ac5cdcf83a46445b08 wears the Gitcoin governance token's ticker, but the contract behind this address is the opposite of what that name implies: it can mint new supply, and — the power that earns the grade — the contract owner can change balances outright, meaning a holder's balance could be altered or zeroed without any transaction from that holder.
Everything else is secondary to that lever. A $18 thousand pool is thin and fragile; the ten largest wallets hold about 95.2% of supply; the book is 1,569 days old with 10,070 wallets and a $112 thousand cap at the November 6, 2026 snapshot.
RETH
rETH is Rocket Pool's liquid staking receipt — the decentralized alternative in the ETH-staking market: anyone can run a Rocket Pool "minipool" validator with 8 ETH plus RPL collateral, and rETH appreciates against ETH as rewards accrue. The contract 0xae78736cd615f374d3085123a210448e74fc6393 is the canonical deployment; our November 6, 2026 read shows $8.4 million of tracked pool liquidity, with rETH's deeper venues spread across the wider DeFi stack.
The honest framing: rETH's pitch is credible neutrality — a permissionless operator set rather than one company's validators — and the trade-off is the usual one: a smaller, more fragmented liquidity surface than stETH and its own smart-contract surface (minipool mechanics, oracle DAO) instead of a single issuer's operations. The wrapper price is not ETH's price — it floats on its own exchange rate and has traded at discounts in stress.
FAQ
Which is bigger, GTC or RETH?
By tracked market cap: GTC (Optimism) measures — and RETH (Ethereum) measures $807.34M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, GTC or RETH?
On the contract checks we publish: GTC (Optimism) grades D and RETH (Ethereum) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have GTC and RETH performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-26 and 2026-11-13, the measured snapshots show GTC at +90.6% and RETH at −25.3%.
More comparisons
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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→2026-11-13; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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