HostLDO vs AURA — price, size and safety, side by side
LDO (Ethereum) vs AURA (Polygon) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-09-27 / 2026-09-26.
LDO vs AURA — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-26T18:07:24
| LDO | AURA | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.4846 | $0.528 |
| Market cap | $402.01M | $4.54M |
| 24h volume | $409.00K | $37.82K |
| Liquidity | $1.09M | $1.08M |
| FDV | $484.61M | $4.94M |
| Holders | 63,889 | 2,700 |
| Age (days) | 1,561 | 88 |
| Safety grade | C | B |
Where they differ
- LDO measures ~89× the market cap of AURA
- LDO measures ~11× the 24h volume of AURA
- LDO measures ~24× the holder count of AURA
- over the shared window LDO moved +11.3% while AURA moved 0.00%
What the data says
LDO
LDO is Lido DAO's governance token — the vote share over the largest staking pool in crypto, the operator set behind stETH and wstETH (both covered separately in this corpus). The contract 0x5a98fcbea516cf06857215779fd812ca3bef1b32 is the canonical deployment; our September 27, 2026 read shows $1.1 million of tracked pool liquidity at a $0.39 handle.
The honest mechanics: LDO is governance, not cash flow — it doesn't pay you a share of Lido's fee revenue, it buys influence over who gets to run validators and what the treasury does. Its risk is its dominance: Lido's share of staked ETH is large enough that regulators and the Ethereum community itself periodically debate capping it, and that debate is the LDO chart. A governance token on the biggest single point of staking centralization is a strange asset — know that is what it is.
AURA
AURA — Auralith — is an 88-day-old Polygon token at 0xd9d12f43918363cea1c0b62d16f1f81b8eae91e0, priced at a $4.5 million market cap on the September 27, 2026 snapshot.
The venue side is the healthiest in this batch relative to size: $1.1 million of tracked pool liquidity is deep for a $4.5M cap — a quarter of the valuation sits in the exit book. What isn't measured matters as much: contract controls weren't evaluated in this snapshot and holder distribution wasn't resolved, so the structural questions stay open.
FAQ
Which is bigger, LDO or AURA?
By tracked market cap: LDO (Ethereum) measures $402.01M and AURA (Polygon) measures $4.54M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, LDO or AURA?
On the contract checks we publish: LDO (Ethereum) grades C and AURA (Polygon) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have LDO and AURA performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-26T18:07:24, the measured snapshots show LDO at +11.3% and AURA at 0.00%.
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, 2026-09-21→2026-09-26T18:07:24; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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