HostRETH vs WETH — price, size and safety, side by side
RETH (Ethereum) vs WETH (Ethereum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-09-26 / 2026-09-27.
RETH vs WETH — normalized performance, 2026-09-14 to 2026-09-26T18:07:24
| RETH | WETH | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.14K | $2.71K |
| Market cap | $1.00B | $5.58B |
| 24h volume | $1.27M | $241.99M |
| Liquidity | $11.93M | $924.90M |
| FDV | $1.00B | $5.58B |
| Holders | 21,817 | 3,669,227 |
| Age (days) | 1,492 | 1,727 |
| Safety grade | B | A |
Where they differ
- WETH measures ~5.6× the market cap of RETH
- WETH measures ~78× the liquidity of RETH
- WETH measures ~191× the 24h volume of RETH
- WETH measures ~168× the holder count of RETH
What the data says
RETH
rETH is Rocket Pool's liquid staking receipt — the decentralized alternative in the ETH-staking market: anyone can run a Rocket Pool "minipool" validator with 8 ETH plus RPL collateral, and rETH appreciates against ETH as rewards accrue. The contract 0xae78736cd615f374d3085123a210448e74fc6393 is the canonical deployment; our September 26, 2026 read shows $11.9 million of tracked pool liquidity, with rETH's deeper venues spread across the wider DeFi stack.
The honest framing: rETH's pitch is credible neutrality — a permissionless operator set rather than one company's validators — and the trade-off is the usual one: a smaller, more fragmented liquidity surface than stETH and its own smart-contract surface (minipool mechanics, oracle DAO) instead of a single issuer's operations. The wrapper price is not ETH's price — it floats on its own exchange rate and has traded at discounts in stress.
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 $925 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, RETH or WETH?
By tracked market cap: RETH (Ethereum) measures $1.00B and WETH (Ethereum) measures $5.58B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, RETH or WETH?
On the contract checks we publish: RETH (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 RETH and WETH performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-14 and 2026-09-26T18:07:24, the measured snapshots show RETH at +7.01% and WETH at +5.84%.
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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, 2026-09-14→2026-09-26T18:07:24; 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.