HostTEL vs LINK — price, size and safety, side by side
TEL (Polygon) vs LINK (Ethereum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-09-27 / 2026-09-26.
TEL vs LINK — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-26T18:07:24
| TEL | LINK | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.001742 | $14.30 |
| Market cap | $172.16M | $9.76B |
| 24h volume | $253.82K | $2.58M |
| Liquidity | $1.43M | $24.03M |
| FDV | $67.12M | $13.05B |
| Holders | 35,353 | 919,439 |
| Age (days) | 327 | 1,727 |
| Safety grade | B | A |
Where they differ
- LINK measures ~57× the market cap of TEL
- LINK measures ~17× the liquidity of TEL
- LINK measures ~10× the 24h volume of TEL
- LINK measures ~26× the holder count of TEL
- over the shared window TEL moved −0.81% while LINK moved +10.3%
What the data says
TEL
TEL at 0xdf7837de1f2fa4631d716cf2502f8b230f1dcc32 is Telcoin's remittance asset in its PoS-bridged Polygon form — the payments token aimed at telecom corridors, carried to the chain where its retail flow actually trades. The September 27, 2026 snapshot prices a $172.2 million asset-wide market cap against a $67.1 million fully-diluted read of the local float — 38.3 billion units sitting on this chain.
The book is honest mid-cap shape: $1.4 million of tracked pool depth is workable for the size, on $72.2 thousand of 24-hour volume — a working tape rather than a churn chart. The deployment is 327 days into this index's record.
LINK
LINK is Chainlink's token — the asset that pays the oracle network most of DeFi runs on, making it one of the few crypto tokens tied to infrastructure the market actually uses every block. The deployment 0x514910771af9ca656af840dff83e8264ecf986ca is the canonical mint; our September 26, 2026 snapshot reads $24.0 million of tracked pool liquidity on this pair set — a fraction of a float spread across every venue that lists it.
The honest shape: LINK's value thesis is payment for oracle services plus stake in the network's security model, so it carries a real-usage floor most tokens lack — and a valuation that has always run ahead of the fees the network actually collects. It is infrastructure exposure, not a cashflow claim, and the gap between "most-used oracle" and "token captures that usage" is the open question its holders are betting on.
FAQ
Which is bigger, TEL or LINK?
By tracked market cap: TEL (Polygon) measures $172.16M and LINK (Ethereum) measures $9.76B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, TEL or LINK?
On the contract checks we publish: TEL (Polygon) grades B and LINK (Ethereum) grades A. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have TEL and LINK performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-26T18:07:24, the measured snapshots show TEL at −0.81% and LINK at +10.3%.
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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, 2026-09-21→2026-09-26T18:07:24; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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