HostPOL vs LDO — price, size and safety, side by side
POL (Polygon) vs LDO (Ethereum) — 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.
POL vs LDO — normalized performance, 2026-09-26 to 2026-09-26T18:07:24
| POL | LDO | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.1131 | $0.4912 |
| Market cap | $1.13B | $368.12M |
| 24h volume | $32.66K | $1.00M |
| Liquidity | $122.86K | $853.83K |
| FDV | $1.13B | $441.31M |
| Holders | 42,304 | 63,817 |
| Age (days) | 600 | 1,561 |
| Safety grade | A | C |
Where they differ
- POL measures ~3.1× the market cap of LDO
- LDO measures ~6.9× the liquidity of POL
- LDO measures ~31× the 24h volume of POL
- LDO measures ~1.5× the holder count of POL
What the data says
POL
POL is Polygon's native asset — the successor to MATIC — exposed at the system address 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000001010. There is no deployer contract to abuse here: the reason this page grades A is that the asset is the chain's own.
The September 27, 2026 snapshot prices a $1.1 billion market cap, 600 days into the token's life. The venue caveat is the same one every bridged representation carries: $122.9 thousand of tracked pool liquidity is the on-chain book this page measures — a thin slice of an asset that trades its real depth elsewhere.
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 26, 2026 read shows $854 thousand 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, POL or LDO?
By tracked market cap: POL (Polygon) measures $1.13B and LDO (Ethereum) measures $368.12M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, POL or LDO?
On the contract checks we publish: POL (Polygon) grades A and LDO (Ethereum) grades C. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have POL and LDO performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26T18:07:24, the measured snapshots show POL at 0.00% and LDO at 0.00%.
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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→2026-09-26T18:07:24; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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