AUDIO vs POOL
Audius and PoolTogether 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
AUDIO scores 101 of 250 and ranks 135th of 251. POOL scores 96 and ranks 161st. AUDIO leads by 5 points, which is inside the range where the individual variables matter more than the total. AUDIO takes 5 of the 25 variables, POOL takes 1, and 19 are level.
The framework rates AUDIO WATCH and POOL 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 AUDIO and POOL 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 Protocol Revenue, Revenue Trend, Buyback and Burn, TVL Trend, Institutional Adoption, Catalyst Calendar and 1 more. 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.
AUDIO is valued at $22.7M against $176.3K for POOL, a 128.5x difference. The larger of the two also scores higher, so the market and the framework agree on the ordering here.
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 | 2 | 2 | level | |
| Revenue Trend | 3 | 3 | level | |
| P/S Multiple | 3 | 4 | POOL +1 | |
| Real Staking Yield | 4 | 3 | AUDIO +1 |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Vesting Schedule | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Buyback and Burn | 2 | 2 | level |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Insider Selling | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Holder Concentration | 4 | 4 | level |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Active Users | 4 | 3 | AUDIO +1 | |
| Developer Activity | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Network Growth | 4 | 4 | level |
Position
| Market Share | 5 | 4 | AUDIO +1 | |
| Competitive Moat | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Institutional Adoption | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Exchange Depth | 5 | 3 | AUDIO +2 | |
| Social Mindshare | 4 | 3 | AUDIO +1 |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 3 | 3 | level | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Team Execution | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Treasury Runway | 5 | 5 | level |
Bars read outward from the centre: AUDIO to the left, POOL 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
| AUDIO | POOL | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.0155 | $0.0183 |
| Market cap | $22.7M | $176.3K |
| Circulating | 100% | 96.1% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1x | 1.04x |
| Off all-time high | -99.69% | -99.966% |
| To recover the high | 322.6x | 2,941x |
| Total value locked | not published | not published |
| Network | Solana | 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
AUDIO · WATCH
Audius decentralized music streaming platform growth and artist tokenization partnerships.
Low mainstream adoption versus centralized streaming giants and content moderation challenges.
POOL · PASS
Vault growth and no-loss lottery adoption via Prize Savings Accounts on L2s
Regulatory risk as prize-linked savings may face securities classification
Common questions
- Is AUDIO or POOL the better investment?
- On this framework AUDIO scores higher: 101 against 96 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 AUDIO still wins 5 of the 25 individual variables against POOL.
- What is the biggest difference between AUDIO and POOL?
- 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, AUDIO or POOL?
- AUDIO is valued at $22.7M and POOL at $176.3K 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.