HostPYUSD vs AERO — price, size and safety, side by side
PYUSD (Ethereum) vs AERO (Base) — 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.
PYUSD vs AERO — normalized performance, 2026-09-08 to 2026-09-27T18:22:06
| PYUSD | AERO | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.9991 | $0.8651 |
| Market cap | $2.78B | $861.78M |
| 24h volume | $7.44M | $24.80M |
| Liquidity | $71.03M | $34.70M |
| FDV | $1.73B | $1.72B |
| Holders | 107,969 | 753,693 |
| Age (days) | 250 | 663 |
| Safety grade | B | B |
Where they differ
- PYUSD measures ~3.2× the market cap of AERO
- PYUSD measures ~2.0× the liquidity of AERO
- AERO measures ~3.3× the 24h volume of PYUSD
- AERO measures ~7.0× the holder count of PYUSD
- over the shared window PYUSD moved −0.09% while AERO moved +50.3%
What the data says
PYUSD
PYUSD is what a stablecoin looks like when it's built for regulators first and DeFi second. PayPal USD is issued not by PayPal directly but by Paxos Trust Company, a New York–chartered trust supervised by NYDFS, with reserves held in dollar deposits, U.S. Treasuries, and equivalents, attested monthly. The Ethereum deployment lives at 0x6c3ea9036406852006290770bedfcaba0e23a0e8, where NexFlow's September 27, 2026 snapshot records roughly $71 million of tracked pool liquidity and $11 million of daily on-chain volume — modest next to USDC or USDT, in keeping with a coin whose primary life is inside PayPal and Venmo balances rather than on DEXes.
Read the contract powers through the regulated-issuer lens or you'll misread them as red flags. PYUSD's contract can mint (against dollars in), burn (against dollars out), pause transfers entirely, and freeze or even wipe balances at specific addresses under Paxos's asset-protection role. On an anonymous token, that list is a rug in waiting; here it is the legally mandated toolkit of a New York trust company, and NYDFS supervision is precisely the reason those powers exist. The trade you make holding PYUSD is explicit: maximum issuer accountability, in exchange for maximum issuer control.
AERO
AERO is Aerodrome Finance's token — and Aerodrome is not just another DEX, it is the central liquidity hub of Base: the ve(3,3) emissions engine (a Velodrome fork) that routes rewards to pools by veAERO voter preference, making it the venue where most serious Base liquidity is deposited. The contract 0x940181a94a35a4569e4529a3cdfb74e38fd98631 is the canonical Base deployment; our September 27, 2026 read shows $34.7 million in the tracked pools themselves — a separate number from the far larger volume the exchange routes daily.
The honest shape: AERO's price is a bet on the emissions flywheel — votes direct emissions, emissions attract liquidity, liquidity attracts volume, volume attracts votes. Flywheels run beautifully in both directions, and a token whose demand depends on perpetual emissions demand carries reflexivity risk in full. The ve-lock does damp the circulating float, which is the honest counterweight.
FAQ
Which is bigger, PYUSD or AERO?
By tracked market cap: PYUSD (Ethereum) measures $2.78B and AERO (Base) measures $861.78M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, PYUSD or AERO?
On the contract checks we publish: PYUSD (Ethereum) grades B and AERO (Base) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have PYUSD and AERO performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-08 and 2026-09-27T18:22:06, the measured snapshots show PYUSD at −0.09% and AERO at +50.3%.
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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→2026-09-27T18:22:06; 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.