HostPENDLE vs LDO — price, size and safety, side by side
PENDLE (Arbitrum) vs LDO (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 LDO — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-27T18:22:06
| PENDLE | LDO | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.64 | $0.4846 |
| Market cap | $457.55M | $402.01M |
| 24h volume | $1.20M | $409.00K |
| Liquidity | $3.40M | $1.09M |
| FDV | $38.28M | $484.61M |
| Holders | 70,287 | 63,889 |
| Age (days) | 1,293 | 1,561 |
| Safety grade | B | C |
Where they differ
- PENDLE measures ~3.1× the liquidity of LDO
- PENDLE measures ~2.9× the 24h volume of LDO
- over the shared window PENDLE moved −4.03% while LDO moved +9.81%
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.
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 27, 2026 read shows $1.1 million 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.
FAQ
Which is bigger, PENDLE or LDO?
By tracked market cap: PENDLE (Arbitrum) measures $457.55M and LDO (Ethereum) measures $402.01M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, PENDLE or LDO?
On the contract checks we publish: PENDLE (Arbitrum) grades B and LDO (Ethereum) grades C. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have PENDLE and LDO performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-27T18:22:06, the measured snapshots show PENDLE at −4.03% and LDO at +9.81%.
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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→2026-09-27T18:22:06; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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