HostLDO vs LINK — price, size and safety, side by side
LDO (Ethereum) vs LINK (Ethereum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-09-26 / 2026-09-26.
LDO vs LINK — normalized performance, 2026-09-08 to 2026-09-26T18:07:24
| LDO | LINK | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.4912 | $14.30 |
| Market cap | $368.12M | $9.76B |
| 24h volume | $1.00M | $2.58M |
| Liquidity | $853.83K | $24.03M |
| FDV | $441.31M | $13.05B |
| Holders | 63,817 | 919,439 |
| Age (days) | 1,561 | 1,727 |
| Safety grade | C | A |
Where they differ
- LINK measures ~27× the market cap of LDO
- LINK measures ~28× the liquidity of LDO
- LINK measures ~2.6× the 24h volume of LDO
- LINK measures ~14× the holder count of LDO
- over the shared window LDO moved +25.9% while LINK moved +14.4%
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 26, 2026 read shows $854 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
LINK is Chainlink's token — the asset that pays the oracle network most of DeFi runs on, making it one of the few crypto tokens tied to infrastructure the market actually uses every block. The deployment 0x514910771af9ca656af840dff83e8264ecf986ca is the canonical mint; our September 26, 2026 snapshot reads $24.0 million of tracked pool liquidity on this pair set — a fraction of a float spread across every venue that lists it.
The honest shape: LINK's value thesis is payment for oracle services plus stake in the network's security model, so it carries a real-usage floor most tokens lack — and a valuation that has always run ahead of the fees the network actually collects. It is infrastructure exposure, not a cashflow claim, and the gap between "most-used oracle" and "token captures that usage" is the open question its holders are betting on.
FAQ
Which is bigger, LDO or LINK?
By tracked market cap: LDO (Ethereum) measures $368.12M and LINK (Ethereum) measures $9.76B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, LDO or LINK?
On the contract checks we publish: LDO (Ethereum) grades C and LINK (Ethereum) grades A. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have LDO and LINK performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-08 and 2026-09-26T18:07:24, the measured snapshots show LDO at +25.9% and LINK at +14.4%.
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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, 2026-09-08→2026-09-26T18:07:24; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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