HostWAVAX vs PEPE — price, size and safety, side by side
WAVAX (Avalanche) vs PEPE (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.
WAVAX vs PEPE — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-26T18:07:24
| WAVAX | PEPE | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $11.12 | $0.000004405 |
| Market cap | $199.38M | $1.77B |
| 24h volume | $59.07M | $1.66M |
| Liquidity | $16.94M | $16.55M |
| FDV | $197.86M | $1.74B |
| Holders | 362,181 | 593,817 |
| Age (days) | 343 | 1,256 |
| Safety grade | A | B |
Where they differ
- PEPE measures ~8.9× the market cap of WAVAX
- WAVAX measures ~36× the 24h volume of PEPE
- PEPE measures ~1.6× the holder count of WAVAX
- over the shared window WAVAX moved −4.22% while PEPE moved +4.83%
What the data says
WAVAX
WAVAX at 0xb31f66aa3c1e785363f0875a1b74e27b85fd66c7 is Wrapped AVAX — the ERC-20 form of Avalanche's gas token, one AVAX in and one WAVAX out, existing so C-Chain DeFi can hold the native asset inside contract logic. The September 27, 2026 snapshot grades it A: the contract cannot mint new supply, cannot freeze balances, and is not a proxy. A wrapper should be boring; this one is.
The market structure is anything but quiet: 362,181 holders and $16.9 million of tracked pool depth against a $199.4 million wrapped float of 16.9 million units — and $114.7 million of 24-hour volume, turnover running at several times the pool depth. That is what a gas-asset wrapper is for: it is the settlement leg of the whole chain's trading. The ten largest wallets holding 84.3% of supply is the expected silhouette — DEX pools, bridges and routers dominate the large-holder bracket on a wrapped native token.
PEPE
PEPE is the memecoin that defined 2023 — launched that April as a deliberately utility-free tribute to Pepe the Frog, with the famous 420.69-trillion supply, no transfer tax, a burned LP position and a renounced contract, and inside three weeks it had minted a multi-billion-dollar market cap and forced listings at nearly every major exchange. The canonical mint is 0x6982508145454ce325ddbe47a25d4ec3d2311933; our September 26, 2026 snapshot reads $16.6 million of tracked pool liquidity on this pair set — a slice of total depth that spans virtually every venue that lists tokens.
The honest verdict splits in two, as it does for every attention asset. Structurally, those launch choices are why PEPE grades cleanest among the mega-memes: no mint lever, no transfer tax, a contract the deployer walked away from. Above the chain there is nothing to underwrite — no cashflow, no protocol, no floor — only the meme's durability, which PEPE has outlasted nearly its entire 2023 cohort on. A broad, long-lived holder base means the whale-farm shape of smaller memes does not apply the same way — but "broad" is not "permanent," and the chart still answers to attention alone.
FAQ
Which is bigger, WAVAX or PEPE?
By tracked market cap: WAVAX (Avalanche) measures $199.38M and PEPE (Ethereum) measures $1.77B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, WAVAX or PEPE?
On the contract checks we publish: WAVAX (Avalanche) grades A and PEPE (Ethereum) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have WAVAX and PEPE performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-26T18:07:24, the measured snapshots show WAVAX at −4.22% and PEPE at +4.83%.
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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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