HostUSDC vs AZTEC — price, size and safety, side by side
USDC (BNB Chain) vs AZTEC (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.
USDC vs AZTEC — normalized performance, 2026-09-16 to 2026-09-26T06:07:05
| USDC | AZTEC | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.7631 | $0.01487 |
| Market cap | $11 | $172.57M |
| 24h volume | $126.92M | $906.17K |
| Liquidity | $1.38B | $13.13M |
| FDV | $38.16B | $172.57M |
| Holders | 2,778 | 2 |
| Age (days) | 262 | 276 |
| Safety grade | E | A |
Where they differ
- AZTEC measures ~15,688,328× the market cap of USDC
- USDC measures ~105× the liquidity of AZTEC
- USDC measures ~140× the 24h volume of AZTEC
- USDC measures ~1,389× the holder count of AZTEC
- over the shared window USDC moved −17.9% while AZTEC moved 0.00%
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.
AZTEC
AZTEC is the privacy-network token — the asset of the Aztec protocol building programmable privacy on Ethereum via zero-knowledge proofs, one of the few long-horizon technical bets that shipped through multiple crypto winters. The deployment 0xa27ec0006e59f245217ff08cd52a7e8b169e62d2 is the mint; our September 26, 2026 snapshot reads $13.1 million of tracked pool liquidity.
The honest framing: Aztec's thesis is that privacy becomes a default rather than a mixer — a genuine technical claim with years of published research behind it — and the token's value rides on whether that bet lands as a network people route through, which a liquidity snapshot cannot answer. Privacy infrastructure also carries a regulatory surface most tokens don't; that cuts both ways for holders.
FAQ
Which is bigger, USDC or AZTEC?
By tracked market cap: USDC (BNB Chain) measures $11 and AZTEC (Ethereum) measures $172.57M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, USDC or AZTEC?
On the contract checks we publish: USDC (BNB Chain) grades E and AZTEC (Ethereum) grades A. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have USDC and AZTEC performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-16 and 2026-09-26T06:07:05, the measured snapshots show USDC at −17.9% and AZTEC at 0.00%.
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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, 2026-09-16→2026-09-26T06:07:05; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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