HostUSDC vs ALETH — price, size and safety, side by side
USDC (BNB Chain) vs ALETH (Optimism) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-09-27 / 2026-09-27.
USDC vs ALETH — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-27T15:10:18
| USDC | ALETH | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.7631 | $2.63K |
| Market cap | $11 | $22.14M |
| 24h volume | $126.92M | $16.97K |
| Liquidity | $1.38B | $2.41M |
| FDV | $38.16B | $4.56M |
| Holders | 2,778 | 4,140 |
| Age (days) | 262 | 1,181 |
| Safety grade | E | B |
Where they differ
- ALETH measures ~2,012,405× the market cap of USDC
- USDC measures ~572× the liquidity of ALETH
- USDC measures ~7,479× the 24h volume of ALETH
- over the shared window USDC moved −6.99% while ALETH moved −0.09%
What the data says
USDC
Before the market numbers, there's a contract detail on USDC to flag. The mint and freeze levers on USDC's contract is still live as of 2026-09-27, leaving the deployer able to create new supply or freeze transfers for now. Until that changes, USDC stays around 37/100 — worth watching, and an easy win for the project if they remove it.
Here's where USDC stands today: $1.38B of on-chain liquidity, 2,778 wallets holding and 262 days old as of 2026-09-27. Against roughly $11 in market cap, the $1.38B of liquidity is genuinely healthy: deep enough that ordinary trades clear cleanly, which is exactly what you want to see. The 2,778-wallet base is a reasonable spread of ownership, though a headline count doesn't show whether a few wallets dominate — the concentration read on this page speaks to that. Treat the creator's holdings as the headline risk: 72.5% of USDC's supply sits in the deployer's wallet as of 2026-09-27, well past the 'no single holder over 5%' line the scanners use.
ALETH
ALETH at 0x3e29d3a9316dab217754d13b28646b76607c5f04 is Alchemix's ETH claim on Optimism — the ether-denominated sibling of the protocol's self-repaying dollar, a receipt whose backing is a yield-bearing ETH position. The September 27, 2026 snapshot prices a $22.1 million asset-wide market cap against a $4.6 million fully-diluted read of the local float — and that float is just 1.7 thousand claims, a small book by any measure.
Inside the small book the depth is real: $2.4 million of tracked pool liquidity reads deep against the local float, on $68.1 thousand of 24-hour volume. The record runs 1,181 days — the same vintage as its dollar sibling, both surviving deployments of a protocol that has long since gone through its hype cycle.
FAQ
Which is bigger, USDC or ALETH?
By tracked market cap: USDC (BNB Chain) measures $11 and ALETH (Optimism) measures $22.14M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, USDC or ALETH?
On the contract checks we publish: USDC (BNB Chain) grades E and ALETH (Optimism) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have USDC and ALETH performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-27T15:10:18, the measured snapshots show USDC at −6.99% and ALETH at −0.09%.
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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→2026-09-27T15:10:18; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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