HostWSTETH vs PENDLE — price, size and safety, side by side
WSTETH (Ethereum) vs PENDLE (Arbitrum) — 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.
WSTETH vs PENDLE — normalized performance, 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-27T15:10:18
| WSTETH | PENDLE | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.38K | $2.64 |
| Market cap | $12.53B | $457.55M |
| 24h volume | $2.66M | $1.20M |
| Liquidity | $50.30M | $3.40M |
| FDV | $12.44B | $38.28M |
| Holders | 39,070 | 70,287 |
| Age (days) | 1,492 | 1,293 |
| Safety grade | B | B |
Where they differ
- WSTETH measures ~27× the market cap of PENDLE
- WSTETH measures ~15× the liquidity of PENDLE
- WSTETH measures ~2.2× the 24h volume of PENDLE
- PENDLE measures ~1.8× the holder count of WSTETH
What the data says
WSTETH
wstETH is stETH made legible to DeFi — the same claim on Lido-staked Ether, wrapped so the balance stops moving: where stETH re-bases your token count upward each day, wstETH holds a fixed count and lets the exchange rate against stETH do the appreciating. That is the shape lending markets, bridges and LPs need, which is why the contract at 0x7f39c581f595b53c5cb19bd0b3f8da6c935e2ca0 became the canonical collateral form — our September 27, 2026 snapshot reads $50.3 million of tracked pool liquidity on it.
The verdict therefore inherits stETH's, plus one wrapper-layer note. You hold a claim on staked ETH via Lido — subject to its validator set, Ethereum's exit queue, and stETH's own depeg memory (June 2022, when it traded visibly under par) — and the price shown for wstETH is stETH's price times a steadily growing conversion rate, so it will always quote above ETH while tracking correctly. Nothing about that is a defect; it is the mechanic to understand before reading the quote as a premium.
PENDLE
PENDLE on Arbitrum at 0x0c880f6761f1af8d9aa9c466984b80dab9a8c9e8 is the bridged deployment of the yield-tokenization protocol's token — the asset behind the principal-and-yield-splitting market that turned fixed yield into a DeFi primitive. The September 27, 2026 snapshot prices the Arbitrum-local supply of 14.6 million units at $38.3 million fully diluted, against an asset-wide $457.6 million market cap.
$3.4 million of tracked pool depth on this chain is thin measured the way the depth flag measures — against the asset-wide figure — but functional: $632.8 thousand of 24-hour volume moves through it. The 1,293-day record belongs to a token whose liquidity genuinely spans chains, with Ethereum holding the canonical supply and Arbitrum holding the routed share, so the local book is a window on the market rather than the market itself.
FAQ
Which is bigger, WSTETH or PENDLE?
By tracked market cap: WSTETH (Ethereum) measures $12.53B and PENDLE (Arbitrum) measures $457.55M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, WSTETH or PENDLE?
On the contract checks we publish: WSTETH (Ethereum) grades B and PENDLE (Arbitrum) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have WSTETH and PENDLE performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-27T15:10:18, the measured snapshots show WSTETH at −0.04% and PENDLE at −4.03%.
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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.
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