ALCX vs NMR
Alchemix and Numeraire scored on the same 25 variables, ranked against the same 251 tokens, with every gap between them shown.
Scoring pass 18 Sept 2026. Market snapshot 7 Oct 2026.
What separates them
ALCX scores 108 of 250 and ranks 100th of 251. NMR scores 98 and ranks 150th. ALCX leads by 10 points, which is inside the range where the individual variables matter more than the total. ALCX takes 13 of the 25 variables, NMR takes 3, and 9 are level.
The framework rates ALCX WATCH and NMR PASS. Two tokens close enough to compare do not have to land in the same band, and where they do not, the divergence table below is where the split comes from.
No single variable separates ALCX and NMR by as much as 3 points. They are close on the framework's terms, which makes price, liquidity and the supply position below the only grounds for choosing.
Both score 3 or below on Buyback and Burn, Active Users, Market Share, Institutional Adoption. A weakness both sides share is not a reason to prefer either. It is a reason to check whether the category itself carries the problem.
NMR is valued at $105.4M against $6.6M for ALCX, a 15.9x difference. The smaller of the two scores higher on fundamentals, which is the disagreement worth understanding before either position is taken.
All 25 variables, head to head
Both tokens were scored by the same framework in the same pass, so the numbers are directly comparable. What a comparison adds over two separate pages is the gap: a 6 against a 6 is a non-event, a 9 against a 3 is the reason to hold one and not the other.
Cash flow
| Protocol Revenue | 4 | 3 | ALCX +1 | |
| Revenue Trend | 4 | 3 | ALCX +1 | |
| P/S Multiple | 5 | 4 | ALCX +1 | |
| Real Staking Yield | 4 | 3 | ALCX +1 |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Vesting Schedule | 6 | 7 | NMR +1 | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 6 | 7 | NMR +1 | |
| Buyback and Burn | 3 | 2 | ALCX +1 |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 5 | 4 | ALCX +1 | |
| Insider Selling | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Holder Concentration | 4 | 3 | ALCX +1 |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 4 | 3 | ALCX +1 | |
| Active Users | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Developer Activity | 5 | 4 | ALCX +1 | |
| Network Growth | 4 | 3 | ALCX +1 |
Position
| Market Share | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Competitive Moat | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Institutional Adoption | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Exchange Depth | 3 | 4 | NMR +1 | |
| Social Mindshare | 4 | 3 | ALCX +1 |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 4 | 3 | ALCX +1 | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 4 | 3 | ALCX +1 | |
| Team Execution | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Treasury Runway | 5 | 5 | level |
Bars read outward from the centre: ALCX to the left, NMR to the right. The side that leads a variable is filled. Each score is 1 to 10 against the same definition applied to all 251 rated tokens.
Market and supply
| ALCX | NMR | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.62 | $14.70 |
| Market cap | $6.6M | $105.4M |
| Circulating | 78.9% | 65.2% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1.27x | 1.53x |
| Off all-time high | -99.87% | -84.2% |
| To recover the high | 769.2x | 6.3x |
| Total value locked | not published | not published |
| Network | Ethereum | Ethereum |
Price, market cap and all-time high from the CoinGecko snapshot fetched 7 Oct 2026. Supply shares are derived from circulating and eventual supply counts, which do not move with price. The 25 scores come from the research pass dated 18 Sept 2026.
Catalyst and risk on each side
ALCX · WATCH
Self-repaying loans via Alchemix V3; yield optimization on multiple chains.
Smart contract risk from complex DeFi strategies; low TVL and user adoption.
NMR · PASS
AI-driven hedge fund tournaments and Numerai's staking mechanism attracting data scientists.
Low retail adoption; tokenomics reliant on tournament participation, not broad utility.
Common questions
- Is ALCX or NMR the better investment?
- On this framework ALCX scores higher: 108 against 98 of 250, and it is rated WATCH against PASS. That is a ranking of fundamentals as recorded at the last scoring pass, not a price forecast, and ALCX still wins 13 of the 25 individual variables against NMR.
- What is the biggest difference between ALCX and NMR?
- Nothing separates them by more than 2 points on any of the 25 variables, which is unusual and means the two are close substitutes on fundamentals.
- Which is bigger, ALCX or NMR?
- ALCX is valued at $6.6M and NMR at $105.4M on the latest market snapshot.
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Research and analysis, not investment advice. A higher score is one framework applied consistently to 251 tokens, not a prediction that one asset will outperform the other.