HostWETH vs AS — price, size and safety, side by side
WETH (Ethereum) vs AS (Polygon) — 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.
WETH vs AS — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-27T15:10:18
| WETH | AS | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.71K | $0.2704 |
| Market cap | $5.58B | — |
| 24h volume | $241.99M | $91.70K |
| Liquidity | $924.90M | $4.05M |
| FDV | $5.58B | $69.43M |
| Holders | 3,669,227 | 406,383 |
| Age (days) | 1,727 | 467 |
| Safety grade | A | C |
Where they differ
- WETH measures ~229× the liquidity of AS
- WETH measures ~2,639× the 24h volume of AS
- WETH measures ~9.0× the holder count of AS
- over the shared window WETH moved −0.00% while AS moved −49.3%
What the data says
WETH
WETH is the oldest load-bearing contract in DeFi. Deployed in December 2017 as WETH9, the contract at 0xc02aaa39b223fe8d0a0e5c4f27ead9083c756cc2 does exactly one thing: wrap ETH — which predates the ERC-20 standard and doesn't conform to it — into a token that does, redeemable one-for-one, instantly, by anyone, forever. It has no owner, no admin functions, no upgrade path, and no pause switch. Nearly every DEX trade, lending market, and NFT sale on Ethereum has settled through it at some point; it is less a token than a piece of the chain's plumbing.
That architecture is why the usual checklist comes back almost empty. There is no team to rug, no supply policy to abuse — WETH supply is simply however much ETH is currently deposited in the contract, minted on wrap and burned on unwrap. The failure mode people theorize about (the contract holding less ETH than WETH outstanding) would require a bug that eight-plus years of the highest-value adversarial testing in crypto has not found. NexFlow's September 27, 2026 snapshot shows roughly $925 million of tracked pool liquidity and $73 million of daily volume on this deployment, and both understate reality — WETH is one side of thousands of pools our sample doesn't enumerate.
AS
AS Token at 0x6a92b1e99de09f71cd96bc91f934826d96b8b26e is a 467-day-old Polygon book carrying a $69.4 million headline market cap at the September 27, 2026 snapshot.
The two numbers that matter sit in tension: $4.0 million of tracked liquidity is large in absolute terms but thin against that cap — a position that feels small to you can still be large for the pool, and exits reprice fast. The second gap is structural: contract-level controls were not assessed in this snapshot, so mint, pause and upgrade levers are unverified rather than cleared.
FAQ
Which is bigger, WETH or AS?
By tracked market cap: WETH (Ethereum) measures $5.58B and AS (Polygon) measures — — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, WETH or AS?
On the contract checks we publish: WETH (Ethereum) grades A and AS (Polygon) grades C. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have WETH and AS performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-27T15:10:18, the measured snapshots show WETH at −0.00% and AS at −49.3%.
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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.
Figures are dated on-chain snapshots, not a live feed. Safety grades are structural checks — not investment advice. Free · no signup · a NexFlow product.