HostWETH vs WBNB — price, size and safety, side by side
WETH (Ethereum) vs WBNB (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.
WETH vs WBNB — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-27T15:10:18
| WETH | WBNB | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.71K | $777.22 |
| Market cap | $5.58B | $1.21B |
| 24h volume | $241.99M | $339.30M |
| Liquidity | $924.90M | $675.82M |
| FDV | $5.58B | $1.21B |
| Holders | 3,669,227 | 8,285,764 |
| Age (days) | 1,727 | — |
| Safety grade | A | A |
Where they differ
- WETH measures ~4.6× the market cap of WBNB
- WBNB measures ~2.3× the holder count of WETH
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.
WBNB
Wrapped BNB is the token form of BNB itself — the same asset, wrapped so BNB Chain contracts and pools can hold it — and the deployment at 0xbb4cdb9cbd36b01bd1cbaebf2de08d9173bc095c is the canonical wrapper the whole chain trades against. This snapshot is dated September 27, 2026.
The contract read is about as clean as the chain produces: mint authority revoked, freeze authority revoked, the contract cannot mint new units, and it is not a proxy, so the deployed code is fixed. 8,285,764 wallets hold it — among the widest bases this index tracks — and the pool carries $675.8 million of tracked liquidity against a $1.2 billion market cap, with $657.5 million changing hands in the last day.
FAQ
Which is bigger, WETH or WBNB?
By tracked market cap: WETH (Ethereum) measures $5.58B and WBNB (BNB Chain) measures $1.21B — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, WETH or WBNB?
On the contract checks we publish: WETH (Ethereum) grades A and WBNB (BNB Chain) grades A. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have WETH and WBNB performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-27T15:10:18, the measured snapshots show WETH at −0.00% and WBNB at −0.78%.
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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.