HostPYUSD vs WETH — price, size and safety, side by side
PYUSD (Ethereum) vs WETH (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.
PYUSD vs WETH — normalized performance, 2026-09-08 to 2026-09-27T15:10:18
| PYUSD | WETH | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.9991 | $2.69K |
| Market cap | $2.78B | $5.53B |
| 24h volume | $7.44M | $248.92M |
| Liquidity | $71.03M | $925.88M |
| FDV | $1.73B | $5.53B |
| Holders | 107,969 | 3,671,764 |
| Age (days) | 250 | 1,727 |
| Safety grade | B | A |
Where they differ
- WETH measures ~2.0× the market cap of PYUSD
- WETH measures ~13× the liquidity of PYUSD
- WETH measures ~33× the 24h volume of PYUSD
- WETH measures ~34× the holder count of PYUSD
- over the shared window PYUSD moved −0.09% while WETH moved +9.67%
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.
WETH
WETH is the oldest load-bearing contract in DeFi. Deployed in December 2017 as WETH9, the contract at 0xc02aaa39b223fe8d0a0e5c4f27ead9083c756cc2 does exactly one thing: wrap ETH — which predates the ERC-20 standard and doesn't conform to it — into a token that does, redeemable one-for-one, instantly, by anyone, forever. It has no owner, no admin functions, no upgrade path, and no pause switch. Nearly every DEX trade, lending market, and NFT sale on Ethereum has settled through it at some point; it is less a token than a piece of the chain's plumbing.
That architecture is why the usual checklist comes back almost empty. There is no team to rug, no supply policy to abuse — WETH supply is simply however much ETH is currently deposited in the contract, minted on wrap and burned on unwrap. The failure mode people theorize about (the contract holding less ETH than WETH outstanding) would require a bug that eight-plus years of the highest-value adversarial testing in crypto has not found. NexFlow's September 27, 2026 snapshot shows roughly $926 million of tracked pool liquidity and $73 million of daily volume on this deployment, and both understate reality — WETH is one side of thousands of pools our sample doesn't enumerate.
FAQ
Which is bigger, PYUSD or WETH?
By tracked market cap: PYUSD (Ethereum) measures $2.78B and WETH (Ethereum) measures $5.53B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, PYUSD or WETH?
On the contract checks we publish: PYUSD (Ethereum) grades B and WETH (Ethereum) grades A. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have PYUSD and WETH performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-08 and 2026-09-27T15:10:18, the measured snapshots show PYUSD at −0.09% and WETH at +9.67%.
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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→2026-09-27T15:10:18; 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.