HostWAVAX vs USDC — price, size and safety, side by side
WAVAX (Avalanche) vs USDC (BNB Chain) — 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.
WAVAX vs USDC — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-27T15:10:18
| WAVAX | USDC | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $11.12 | $0.7631 |
| Market cap | $199.38M | $11 |
| 24h volume | $59.07M | $126.92M |
| Liquidity | $16.94M | $1.38B |
| FDV | $197.86M | $38.16B |
| Holders | 362,181 | 2,778 |
| Age (days) | 343 | 262 |
| Safety grade | A | E |
Where they differ
- WAVAX measures ~18,125,204× the market cap of USDC
- USDC measures ~81× the liquidity of WAVAX
- USDC measures ~2.1× the 24h volume of WAVAX
- WAVAX measures ~130× the holder count of USDC
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.
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.
FAQ
Which is bigger, WAVAX or USDC?
By tracked market cap: WAVAX (Avalanche) measures $199.38M and USDC (BNB Chain) measures $11 — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, WAVAX or USDC?
On the contract checks we publish: WAVAX (Avalanche) grades A and USDC (BNB Chain) grades E. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have WAVAX and USDC performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-27T15:10:18, the measured snapshots show WAVAX at −2.28% and USDC at −6.99%.
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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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