SUSDAI vs USDC — price, size and safety, side by side

SUSDAI

SUSDAI is the staked wrapper of USDai — the yield-bearing form of a dollar token issued against AI-infrastructure financing — trading on Arbitrum at 0x0b2b2b2076d95dda7817e785989fe353fe955ef9. The November 6, 2026 snapshot reads $9.8 million of tracked pool liquidity, the deepest single line item in this slice of the index.

What the numbers say: roughly seven months of trading history behind it, about $2.2 million of 24-hour volume against that liquidity base — a turnover ratio near 12%, the shape of a yield instrument held rather than churned. The ~$1.11 print against a $1-asset wrapper is consistent with accrued staking yield rather than a broken peg, though the snapshot alone cannot separate the two.

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USDC

USDC is the dollar most of Solana actually trades in, and judging it takes a different lens than the one that works on memecoins. This is a centralized, fiat-backed stablecoin: Circle issues it, holds the reserves behind it, and publishes monthly attestations of those reserves. On Solana it lives at mint EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v, where the November 6, 2026 snapshot records about $8.8 billion of market capitalization, roughly 5.25 million holders, and around $383 million of tracked pool liquidity — the deepest dollar venue on the chain.

Here is the part that confuses people who learned token safety from rug-checkers: USDC's mint and freeze authorities are live, on purpose, permanently. Circle has to mint new USDC when dollars come in and burn it when they go out — that is what "backed" means mechanically — and it maintains the ability to freeze addresses to comply with sanctions and court orders, which it has used. On a memecoin, a live mint authority is the classic rug lever; on a fiat-backed stablecoin it is the product working as designed. The risk hasn't vanished — it has moved from an anonymous deployer to a regulated company, which is a trade most holders are knowingly making.