HostLINK vs USDAI — price, size and safety, side by side
LINK (Ethereum) vs USDAI (Arbitrum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-09-26 / 2026-09-27.
LINK vs USDAI — normalized performance, 2026-09-08 to 2026-09-26T18:07:24
| LINK | USDAI | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.30 | $1.00 |
| Market cap | $9.76B | $215.10M |
| 24h volume | $2.58M | $442.69K |
| Liquidity | $24.03M | $999.09K |
| FDV | $13.05B | $214.15M |
| Holders | 919,439 | 2,894 |
| Age (days) | 1,727 | 87 |
| Safety grade | A | B |
Where they differ
- LINK measures ~45× the market cap of USDAI
- LINK measures ~24× the liquidity of USDAI
- LINK measures ~5.8× the 24h volume of USDAI
- LINK measures ~318× the holder count of USDAI
- over the shared window LINK moved +14.4% while USDAI moved +0.01%
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.
USDAI
USDAI is USD.ai's stablecoin — a dollar token backed by loans against GPU and AI-infrastructure collateral, one of the more unusual collateral stacks in the stablecoin set. The contract 0x0a1a1a107e45b7ced86833863f482bc5f4ed82ef is what our scan tracks: $999 thousand of pool liquidity as of September 27, 2026 on Arbitrum, trading essentially at its dollar peg.
The honest mechanics: the backing is hardware-collateralized lending — claims on AI infrastructure and the loans against it — which is genuinely different from the treasury-bill or crypto-overcollateralized models most stablecoins use, and carries its own risks (hardware values depreciate and loan books can go bad). The pool here is thin, so redemptions at size route through the issuer's machinery rather than the public market.
FAQ
Which is bigger, LINK or USDAI?
By tracked market cap: LINK (Ethereum) measures $9.76B and USDAI (Arbitrum) measures $215.10M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, LINK or USDAI?
On the contract checks we publish: LINK (Ethereum) grades A and USDAI (Arbitrum) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have LINK and USDAI performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-08 and 2026-09-26T18:07:24, the measured snapshots show LINK at +14.4% and USDAI at +0.01%.
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, 2026-09-08→2026-09-26T18:07:24; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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