HostWETH vs WPOL — price, size and safety, side by side
WETH (Ethereum) vs WPOL (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 WPOL — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-27T15:10:18
| WETH | WPOL | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.71K | $0.1211 |
| Market cap | $5.58B | $22.12M |
| 24h volume | $241.99M | $8.14M |
| Liquidity | $924.90M | $7.27M |
| FDV | $5.58B | $22.15M |
| Holders | 3,669,227 | 843,463 |
| Age (days) | 1,727 | 1,687 |
| Safety grade | A | A |
Where they differ
- WETH measures ~252× the market cap of WPOL
- WETH measures ~127× the liquidity of WPOL
- WETH measures ~30× the 24h volume of WPOL
- WETH measures ~4.4× the holder count of WPOL
- over the shared window WETH moved −0.00% while WPOL moved +8.33%
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.
WPOL
WPOL at 0x0d500b1d8e8ef31e21c99d1db9a6444d3adf1270 is the gas token's wrapped twin — the ERC-20 face of POL on its own chain, the contract long-timers knew as WMATIC before the token migration renamed what it wraps. One POL in, one WPOL out; the wrapper exists because DeFi needs an ERC-20 and the gas token is not one.
The September 27, 2026 snapshot is as clean as this index prints: the contract cannot mint new supply, cannot freeze balances, and is not a proxy — grade A, on a wrapper whose entire job is to be boring. 843,463 wallets hold it; the market cap reads $22.1 million across 206.7 million wrapped units, and $7.3 million of tracked depth is deep for that size. Daily turnover of $16.1 million is the sound of plumbing doing work — a gas wrapper trades constantly because everything routes through it.
FAQ
Which is bigger, WETH or WPOL?
By tracked market cap: WETH (Ethereum) measures $5.58B and WPOL (Polygon) measures $22.12M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, WETH or WPOL?
On the contract checks we publish: WETH (Ethereum) grades A and WPOL (Polygon) grades A. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have WETH and WPOL performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-27T15:10:18, the measured snapshots show WETH at −0.00% and WPOL at +8.33%.
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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.