HostPENDLE vs DAI — price, size and safety, side by side
PENDLE (Arbitrum) vs DAI (Ethereum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-09-27 / 2026-09-27.
PENDLE vs DAI — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-27T15:10:18
| PENDLE | DAI | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.64 | $1.00 |
| Market cap | $457.55M | $4.62B |
| 24h volume | $1.20M | $2.79M |
| Liquidity | $3.40M | $73.15M |
| FDV | $38.28M | $4.62B |
| Holders | 70,287 | 707,548 |
| Age (days) | 1,293 | 1,526 |
| Safety grade | B | B |
Where they differ
- DAI measures ~10× the market cap of PENDLE
- DAI measures ~22× the liquidity of PENDLE
- DAI measures ~2.3× the 24h volume of PENDLE
- DAI measures ~10× the holder count of PENDLE
What the data says
PENDLE
PENDLE on Arbitrum at 0x0c880f6761f1af8d9aa9c466984b80dab9a8c9e8 is the bridged deployment of the yield-tokenization protocol's token — the asset behind the principal-and-yield-splitting market that turned fixed yield into a DeFi primitive. The September 27, 2026 snapshot prices the Arbitrum-local supply of 14.6 million units at $38.3 million fully diluted, against an asset-wide $457.6 million market cap.
$3.4 million of tracked pool depth on this chain is thin measured the way the depth flag measures — against the asset-wide figure — but functional: $632.8 thousand of 24-hour volume moves through it. The 1,293-day record belongs to a token whose liquidity genuinely spans chains, with Ethereum holding the canonical supply and Arbitrum holding the routed share, so the local book is a window on the market rather than the market itself.
DAI
DAI answered a question the other stablecoins on this site don't ask: can a dollar exist on-chain without a company behind it? Since 2019, the contract at 0x6b175474e89094c44da98b954eedeac495271d0f has held near a dollar not because anyone promises redemption at a bank, but because every DAI is minted against locked crypto collateral worth more than it, with interest rates and liquidations — governed by MakerDAO, now rebranded Sky — doing the work a treasurer would. No single company can freeze your DAI or pause the contract; that censorship-resistance is the property its holders are actually paying for.
The honest complications have grown over the years. A large share of DAI's backing has long included centralized stablecoins and real-world assets, which reimports a slice of the issuer risk the design was born to escape — the March 2023 weekend when USDC's depeg dragged DAI to roughly $0.89 alongside it made that dependency visible. And the 2024 rebrand to Sky, with its upgrade path to the newer USDS token, means DAI is now the legacy branch of its own ecosystem: still enormous, still redeemable through the same machinery, but no longer where its creators' roadmap points. Neither fact is a defect; both belong in the price of holding it.
FAQ
Which is bigger, PENDLE or DAI?
By tracked market cap: PENDLE (Arbitrum) measures $457.55M and DAI (Ethereum) measures $4.62B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, PENDLE or DAI?
On the contract checks we publish: PENDLE (Arbitrum) grades B and DAI (Ethereum) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have PENDLE and DAI performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-27T15:10:18, the measured snapshots show PENDLE at −4.03% and DAI at +0.08%.
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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→2026-09-27T15:10:18; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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