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SOL vs ETH — price, size and safety, side by side

SOL (Solana) vs ETH (Ethereum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-11-15 / 2026-11-12.

SOLA

$71.14
Wrapped SOL on Solana
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ETHA

$2.04K
Ether on Ethereum
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SOL vs ETH — normalized performance, 2026-09-26 to 2026-11-12T21:16:22

100 — shared start
SOL −32.7%  ·  ETH −24.8% — both series rebased to 100 at the first measured point in the shared window; not a raw-price chart.
SOLETH
Price$71.14$2.04K
Market cap$53.37B$305.06B
24h volume$3.74B all venues$18.07B all venues
Liquidity$892.68M$113.61M
FDV$57.59B$273.77B
Holders3,820,662—
Age (days)—1,240
Safety gradeAA

Where they differ

What the data says

SOL

Wrapped SOL is the one token on this site that is barely a token at all. SOL itself — the coin that pays for every transaction on Solana — is not an SPL token, so any program that expects the SPL standard works with this wrapper instead: one wSOL always represents one SOL, held in a token account you can unwrap back to native SOL at any moment. When a DEX route, a lending pool, or a liquidity pair says "SOL," this mint — So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112 — is almost always what it means under the hood.

The safety read here is about as clean as the format allows, and for a structural reason rather than a flattering one. As of the November 6, 2026 snapshot both the mint authority and the freeze authority read revoked: nobody can print unbacked wSOL, and nobody can freeze a wallet's balance. That isn't a team making good choices — it's baked into how the wrapper works, which is exactly why wrapped SOL is the reference point other tokens get measured against. The snapshot puts roughly 3.82 million holders on the mint and about $893 million of tracked liquidity, numbers no ordinary SPL token approaches.

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ETH

This page tracks native Ether through the 0xeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee placeholder — the convention several DEX aggregators and data APIs use to mean "the chain's own asset" in pair data, since ETH predates ERC-20 and has no contract of its own. Our November 6, 2026 snapshot reads about $113.6 million of tracked pool liquidity attributed to this label — real pools holding real ETH, with one bookkeeping caveat: the same native-asset convention shows up on other chains in this index — Arbitrum's own Ether row uses the all-zeroes address — so per-chain reads of "the ETH row" never quite mean the same slice of pools.

The safety verdict here is the simplest in the corpus: the asset is ETH — no issuer, no mint key, no admin, nothing to rug at the contract layer. The risks are the asset's own — price, network, the L1 itself.

FAQ

Which is bigger, SOL or ETH?

By tracked market cap: SOL (Solana) measures $53.37B and ETH (Ethereum) measures $305.06B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.

Which is safer, SOL or ETH?

On the contract checks we publish: SOL (Solana) grades A and ETH (Ethereum) grades A. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.

How have SOL and ETH performed over the shared window?

Between 2026-09-26 and 2026-11-12T21:16:22, the measured snapshots show SOL at −32.7% and ETH at −24.8%.

More comparisons

SOL vs WETHSOL vs WBNBSOL vs CBBTCSOL vs USDSETH vs CBBTCETH vs USDSETH vs STETHETH vs PYUSD

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→2026-11-12T21:16:22; 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.