HostLDO vs LINK.E — price, size and safety, side by side
LDO (Ethereum) vs LINK.E (Avalanche) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-10-26 / 2026-10-27.
LDO vs LINK.E — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-10-26T21:16:29
| LDO | LINK.E | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.3751 | $11.30 |
| Market cap | $348.19M | $9.64B |
| 24h volume | $542.47K DEX | $7.12K DEX |
| Liquidity | $991.96K | $89.47K |
| FDV | $419.72M | $4.65M |
| Holders | — | 13,087 |
| Age (days) | 1,561 | 1,121 |
| Safety grade | B | C |
Where they differ
- LINK.E measures ~28× the market cap of LDO
- LDO measures ~11× the liquidity of LINK.E
- LDO measures ~76× the 24h volume of LINK.E
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 October 9, 2026 read shows $992 thousand 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.
LINK.E
LINK.E at 0x5947bb275c521040051d82396192181b413227a3 is the legacy Avalanche Bridge deployment of Chainlink's token — the ".e" suffix marking the older bridge's claim — 1,121 days into its record at the October 9, 2026 snapshot. The asset-wide $9.6 billion market cap dwarfs the $4.7 million fully-diluted figure priced on 365.7 thousand local units.
The local book is thin for the headline: $89.5 thousand of tracked depth on $72.6 thousand of 24-hour volume. Contract-level controls were not assessed in this snapshot.
FAQ
Which is bigger, LDO or LINK.E?
By tracked market cap: LDO (Ethereum) measures $348.19M and LINK.E (Avalanche) measures $9.64B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, LDO or LINK.E?
On the contract checks we publish: LDO (Ethereum) grades B and LINK.E (Avalanche) grades C. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have LDO and LINK.E performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-10-26T21:16:29, the measured snapshots show LDO at −15.0% and LINK.E at −11.6%.
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→2026-10-26T21:16:29; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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