HostMSETH vs ETH — price, size and safety, side by side
MSETH (Base) vs ETH (Ethereum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-11-14 / 2026-11-12.
MSETH vs ETH — normalized performance, 2026-09-26 to 2026-11-07T18:16:33
| MSETH | ETH | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.68K | $2.04K |
| Market cap | $42.67M | $305.06B |
| 24h volume | $2.44M all venues | $18.07B all venues |
| Liquidity | $2.26M | $113.61M |
| FDV | $18.04M | $273.77B |
| Holders | 6,036 | — |
| Age (days) | 516 | 1,240 |
| Safety grade | B | A |
Where they differ
- ETH measures ~7,148× the market cap of MSETH
- ETH measures ~50× the liquidity of MSETH
- ETH measures ~7,402× the 24h volume of MSETH
- over the shared window MSETH moved −19.1% while ETH moved −24.8%
What the data says
MSETH
msETH is Metronome Synth's synthetic ether — a collateral-minted synthetic that tracks ETH's price through the Synth engine's mint-and-pool mechanics rather than by holding ether itself. The contract 0x7ba6f01772924a82d9626c126347a28299e98c98 is the Base deployment our scan tracks, at $2.3 million of pool liquidity as of November 6, 2026.
The honest note: msETH is not ETH and not a claim on ETH — synthetic assets trade at whatever the pool clears, which can sit far from the underlying's price (our current read has it at a steep discount to spot ether). Exposure through a synth is exposure to the synth's own liquidity and redemption mechanics first. If you want ETH on Base, bridged or wrapped ETH is the honest instrument; this is a different product.
ETH
This page tracks native Ether through the 0xeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee placeholder — the convention several DEX aggregators and data APIs use to mean "the chain's own asset" in pair data, since ETH predates ERC-20 and has no contract of its own. Our November 6, 2026 snapshot reads about $113.6 million of tracked pool liquidity attributed to this label — real pools holding real ETH, with one bookkeeping caveat: the same native-asset convention shows up on other chains in this index — Arbitrum's own Ether row uses the all-zeroes address — so per-chain reads of "the ETH row" never quite mean the same slice of pools.
The safety verdict here is the simplest in the corpus: the asset is ETH — no issuer, no mint key, no admin, nothing to rug at the contract layer. The risks are the asset's own — price, network, the L1 itself.
FAQ
Which is bigger, MSETH or ETH?
By tracked market cap: MSETH (Base) measures $42.67M and ETH (Ethereum) measures $305.06B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, MSETH or ETH?
On the contract checks we publish: MSETH (Base) grades B and ETH (Ethereum) grades A. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have MSETH and ETH performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-26 and 2026-11-07T18:16:33, the measured snapshots show MSETH at −19.1% and ETH at −24.8%.
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, 2026-09-26→2026-11-07T18:16:33; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
Figures are dated on-chain snapshots, not a live feed. Safety grades are structural checks — not investment advice. Free · no signup · a NexFlow product.