HostWETH vs FBTC — price, size and safety, side by side
WETH (Ethereum) vs FBTC (Solana) — 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 FBTC — normalized performance, 2026-09-08 to 2026-09-27T18:22:06
| WETH | FBTC | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.69K | $84.83K |
| Market cap | $5.53B | $12.51M |
| 24h volume | $248.92M | — |
| Liquidity | $925.88M | $1.66M |
| FDV | $5.53B | $12.51M |
| Holders | 3,671,764 | 42 |
| Age (days) | 1,727 | — |
| Safety grade | A | A |
Where they differ
- WETH measures ~442× the market cap of FBTC
- WETH measures ~557× the liquidity of FBTC
- WETH measures ~87,423× the holder count of FBTC
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 $926 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.
FBTC
FBTC is FunctionBTC — a Bitcoin yield asset in the "BTC that earns" class alongside LBTC and the liquid-staking tokens, issued under Function's structure for putting Bitcoin into yield-bearing deployment. The mint 3orqhCKM5admbcHkHQhRAEKbXhUT5VPgsQqz7fBa6QdF is the Solana deployment; our September 26, 2026 snapshot reads $1.7 million of tracked pool liquidity and grades it A.
The honest note for the class: every "productive BTC" claim is a custody decision — the yield source varies (staking, lending, delta-neutral strategies) but the holder always sits behind at least one operator's reserve management. FBTC's A grade covers the Solana-side mint; the yield engine is an off-chain book.
FAQ
Which is bigger, WETH or FBTC?
By tracked market cap: WETH (Ethereum) measures $5.53B and FBTC (Solana) measures $12.51M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, WETH or FBTC?
On the contract checks we publish: WETH (Ethereum) grades A and FBTC (Solana) grades A. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have WETH and FBTC performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-08 and 2026-09-27T18:22:06, the measured snapshots show WETH at +8.78% and FBTC at +10.7%.
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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, 2026-09-08→2026-09-27T18:22:06; 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.