HostZEN vs TBTC — price, size and safety, side by side
ZEN (Base) vs TBTC (Ethereum) — every figure is the freshest dated measurement we hold for that token, never a live-feed guess. Prices stamped 2026-09-26 / 2026-09-27.
ZEN vs TBTC — normalized performance, 2026-09-18T04:43:53 to 2026-09-26T18:07:24
| ZEN | TBTC | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.88 | $83.41K |
| Market cap | $146.28M | $348.57M |
| 24h volume | $4.76M | $346.17K |
| Liquidity | $1.44M | $26.61M |
| FDV | $167.58M | $348.57M |
| Holders | 104,424 | 25,225 |
| Age (days) | 425 | 871 |
| Safety grade | B | B |
Where they differ
- TBTC measures ~2.4× the market cap of ZEN
- TBTC measures ~18× the liquidity of ZEN
- ZEN measures ~14× the 24h volume of TBTC
- ZEN measures ~4.1× the holder count of TBTC
- over the shared window ZEN moved +86.2% while TBTC moved +7.88%
What the data says
ZEN
ZEN is Horizen's token — a veteran privacy-chain project that migrated its ecosystem onto a Base-settled architecture after years as a standalone chain. The contract 0xf43eb8de897fbc7f2502483b2bef7bb9ea179229 is the Base deployment our scan tracks, at $1.4 million of pool liquidity as of September 26, 2026.
The honest read: ZEN is a legacy-network bet in a new wrapper — the zero-knowledge lineage and once-large validator base are real, and so is the migration risk: projects that replatform are simultaneously conceding the old home couldn't hold them and asking the new one to re-rate them. Watch whether Base-era usage actually follows the token.
TBTC
tBTC is Threshold Network's trust-minimized wrapped Bitcoin — the decentralized-custody answer to WBTC, where a rotating set of node operators secures the BTC rather than a single custodian. The deployment 0x18084fba666a33d37592fa2633fd49a74dd93a88 is the v2 mint; our September 27, 2026 snapshot reads $26.6 million of tracked pool liquidity.
The honest contrast is the whole point of the asset: tBTC trades BitGo's institutional custody for a threshold-signature committee — no single company can lose or freeze the coins, but the security model is cryptographic-economic (operator collateral) rather than legal, which is a different risk shape, not a strictly smaller one. Its depth vs WBTC's billions is the market's honest verdict on how much that trade matters to people.
FAQ
Which is bigger, ZEN or TBTC?
By tracked market cap: ZEN (Base) measures $146.28M and TBTC (Ethereum) measures $348.57M — dated snapshots, not a live feed.
Which is safer, ZEN or TBTC?
On the contract checks we publish: ZEN (Base) grades B and TBTC (Ethereum) grades B. A grade is a structural check on the contract, not a promise about the asset.
How have ZEN and TBTC performed over the shared window?
Between 2026-09-18T04:43:53 and 2026-09-26T18:07:24, the measured snapshots show ZEN at +86.2% and TBTC at +7.88%.
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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, 2026-09-18T04:43:53→2026-09-26T18:07:24; a token with fewer measured points measures a shorter span inside it.
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