U vs USDG — price, size and safety, side by side

U

U at 0xce24439f2d9c6a2289f741120fe202248b666666 is United Stables' dollar on BNB Chain — a fiat-backed stablecoin barely 17 days into its record at the October 9, 2026 snapshot, and already carrying a $1.5 billion asset-wide market cap against a BNB Chain float priced $1.1 billion fully diluted. A billion dollars of supply does not appear quietly; that figure is the story.

Tracked depth reads $14.3 million — workable for the size — on $4.4 million of 24-hour volume, and the index flags what seventeen days always flags: the token is young enough that its track record is still being written. Contract-level controls were not assessed in this snapshot, so the authority posture is a live-scan question.

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USDG

USDG is Paxos's second dollar — the newer stablecoin issued under the same regulated umbrella as PYUSD, but built for the Global Dollar Network, a consortium where the yield on reserves gets shared with the institutions distributing it rather than kept whole by the issuer. On Solana it landed where stablecoins actually move: our October 6, 2026 snapshot shows a market cap of about $670.5 million against 21,226 tracked holders and $41.2 million of on-chain pool liquidity — the deepest profile in this batch, and the reason it grades 100/100.

The honest reading of that grade: a regulated issuer with attested reserves is exactly what the contract side wants, and the distribution deal is why exchanges list it — the incentive that made USDT and USDC entrenched is pointed at growth here. The residual is that "regulated" is a jurisdiction's word for centralized controls: the issuer can freeze balances, and that is a property of the asset, not a defect.