HostLINK vs USD1 — price, size and safety, side by side
LINK (Ethereum) vs USD1 (BNB Chain) — 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.
LINK vs USD1 — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-26T18:07:24
| LINK | USD1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.30 | $1.00 |
| Market cap | $9.76B | $4.36B |
| 24h volume | $2.58M | $2.25M |
| Liquidity | $24.03M | $26.51M |
| FDV | $13.05B | $1.40B |
| Holders | 919,439 | 486,992 |
| Age (days) | 1,727 | 528 |
| Safety grade | A | B |
Where they differ
- LINK measures ~2.2× the market cap of USD1
- LINK measures ~1.9× the holder count of USD1
- over the shared window LINK moved +10.3% while USD1 moved +0.04%
What the data says
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.
USD1
USD1 at 0x8d0d000ee44948fc98c9b98a4fa4921476f08b0d is World Liberty Financial's dollar — the stablecoin issued by the Trump-affiliated DeFi venture — and the September 26, 2026 snapshot shows how big it has gotten: an asset-wide market cap of $4.4 billion, with the BNB Chain float of 1.4 billion units priced $1.4 billion fully diluted.
$26.5 million of tracked pool liquidity on BNB Chain reads thin against the headline cap — the flag is arithmetic, not alarm — and 24-hour volume prints $2.2 million, quiet turnover for a top-tier stablecoin, which is what a politically-connected settlement asset tends to look like on-chain: held, moved and deployed, not churned. 528 days on the record is young for the asset class but established for a 2025-issue dollar.
FAQ
Which is bigger, LINK or USD1?
By tracked market cap: LINK (Ethereum) measures $9.76B and USD1 (BNB Chain) measures $4.36B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, LINK or USD1?
On the contract checks we publish: LINK (Ethereum) grades A and USD1 (BNB Chain) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have LINK and USD1 performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-26T18:07:24, the measured snapshots show LINK at +10.3% and USD1 at +0.04%.
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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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