BNB
BNB
Ethereum
ETH
BNB vs Ethereum
Last 7 days, both indexed to zero
Each line starts at zero seven days ago and shows the percentage move since, so the two are on the same scale regardless of what one coin costs. Seven days is a week, not a trend.
| BNB | ETH | |
|---|---|---|
| Price A higher price per coin is not a bigger asset — it is the same value cut into fewer pieces. | $609.97 | $1,864.02 |
| Market cap Price multiplied by circulating supply. The closest thing to "how big is this". | $81.22B | $224.91B (larger) |
| Rank by market cap | #4 | #2 (larger) |
| Change, 24h | ▲2.00% | ▼0.30% |
| Change, 7 days | ▲2.90% | ▼0.40% |
| 24h volume How much actually changed hands. Thin volume against a large market cap means the price is easier to move than the cap suggests. | $673.8M | $6.58B (larger) |
| Daily turnover Volume as a share of market cap — how much of the asset trades in a day. | 0.83% | 2.92% (larger) |
| Circulating supply | 133,164,228 BNB (larger) | 120,682,036 ETH |
| Supply cap A hard cap and an uncapped supply are different designs, not a better and a worse one — what matters is whether issuance is predictable. | 200,000,000 max | No fixed cap |
| Below all-time high How far each sits under its own record price. It says where the price has been, not where it is going. | ▼55.48% | ▼62.31% |
| All-time high | $1,369.99 Oct 2025 | $4,946.05 Aug 2025 |
A highlighted figure is simply the larger of the two. It is marked on size, liquidity and supply — where bigger is a fact — and deliberately not on price or on percentage change, where "bigger" would be us implying a winner.
How BNB and Ethereum actually differ
Ethereum is a neutral platform with no company that owns it. BNB is the asset of BNB Chain, and BNB Chain is Binance's. That single difference explains most of the rest.
BNB began in 2017 as a token giving traders a discount on Binance's fees, and it became the gas asset of a chain that is deliberately Ethereum-compatible: the same contract language, the same wallets, lower fees, and a much smaller validator set that Binance's ecosystem shaped. Ethereum's fees are higher on its base layer because blocks are kept scarce so the chain stays cheap to verify, with cheap activity intended to happen on layer-2 rollups.
Supply mechanics point in the same direction. BNB's total supply falls over time through periodic burns tied to network activity, a schedule the issuer sets. Ethereum has no cap; validators earn newly issued ETH, and part of each fee is destroyed, so net issuance depends on how busy the network is rather than on a corporate decision.
The honest costs. BNB's value tracks the fortunes of one exchange, and that exposure is not theoretical — Binance's 2023 settlement with US authorities, which included a guilty plea and the departure of its founder as CEO, is the kind of event that moves a company-linked token in a way it does not move a neutral protocol asset. Ethereum's costs are complexity and fragmentation: expensive base-layer transactions, a user experience split across rollups, and a long record of contract-level exploits. You are trading neutrality against cost, and the trade is explicit.
What each one is
BNB
BNB was launched by the crypto exchange Binance in 2017, initially as a token giving traders a discount on trading fees. It has since become the native asset of BNB Chain, Binance's own blockchain, where it pays transaction fees in the same way ETH does on Ethereum.
Ethereum
Ethereum is a programmable blockchain launched in 2015 by Vitalik Buterin and a group of co-founders. Where Bitcoin tracks who owns what, Ethereum runs code: smart contracts that execute exactly as written, which is what most stablecoins, lending protocols and NFTs are actually built on.
Where each one lives
BNB
Issued as a token on Ethereum.
The same name exists on several chains. Sending to the wrong one is the most common way people lose money here — check the contract address on the BNB page.
Ethereum
Native asset. ETH has no token contract — it is the asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
Whichever you hold, holding it yourself is the same problem
Both of these can sit on an exchange, and on an exchange neither of them is yours in the way people assume. If you decide to hold either one properly, this is the category that does it — devices that keep the keys off any internet-connected machine.
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Figures for BNB and Ethereum synced 4m ago from CoinGecko and shown in USD. This page is market information and education, not financial advice, and nothing on it is a recommendation to buy or sell BNB or ETH. Both can lose value.