HostWETH vs USDS — price, size and safety, side by side
WETH (Ethereum) vs USDS (Ethereum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-10-26 / 2026-10-26.
WETH vs USDS — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-10-26T21:16:29
| WETH | USDS | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.33K | $0.9955 |
| Market cap | $5.41B | $10.13B |
| 24h volume | $462.86M DEX | $951.99K DEX |
| Liquidity | $902.53M | $89.39M |
| FDV | $5.39B | $7.02B |
| Holders | 3,680,746 | 17,461 |
| Age (days) | 1,727 | 763 |
| Safety grade | A | B |
Where they differ
- USDS measures ~1.9× the market cap of WETH
- WETH measures ~10× the liquidity of USDS
- WETH measures ~486× the 24h volume of USDS
- WETH measures ~211× the holder count of USDS
- over the shared window WETH moved −14.3% while USDS moved −0.22%
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 October 9, 2026 snapshot shows roughly $903 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.
USDS
USDS Stablecoin, known by the ticker USDS, is an asset on the Ethereum blockchain. Its contract address is 0xdc035d45d973e3ec169d2276ddab16f1e407384f. This snapshot of USDS Stablecoin was taken on October 6, 2026.
As of this snapshot, USDS Stablecoin has a market cap of $10.1 billion and a fully-diluted valuation of $7.0 billion, with a total supply of 6.6 billion tokens. It has a 24-hour trading volume of $718.2 thousand and tracked pool liquidity of $89.4 million. The token is 748 days old. NexFlow assigned a safety grade of B to USDS Stablecoin at this snapshot, noting that the pool depth for a token of this size is thin.
FAQ
Which is bigger, WETH or USDS?
By tracked market cap: WETH (Ethereum) measures $5.41B and USDS (Ethereum) measures $10.13B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, WETH or USDS?
On the contract checks we publish: WETH (Ethereum) grades A and USDS (Ethereum) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have WETH and USDS performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-10-26T21:16:29, the measured snapshots show WETH at −14.3% and USDS at −0.22%.
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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→2026-10-26T21:16:29; 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.