BLAST vs MANTA
Blast and Manta Network 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
BLAST scores 87 of 250 and ranks 206th of 251. MANTA scores 76 and ranks 225th. BLAST leads by 11 points, which is a real gap, though small enough that one variable moving would close much of it. BLAST takes 12 of the 25 variables, MANTA takes 2, and 11 are level.
No single variable separates BLAST and MANTA 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, Vesting Schedule, Buyback and Burn, Smart Money Flows, Insider Selling and 9 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.
MANTA still has 51.8% of its eventual supply to enter circulation against 29.2% for BLAST. On the same market capitalisation, a buyer of MANTA is taking the 2.07x dilution path and a buyer of BLAST the 1.41x one.
MANTA is valued at $31.1M against $4.9M for BLAST, a 6.3x 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 | 2 | 1 | BLAST +1 | |
| Revenue Trend | 2 | 2 | level | |
| P/S Multiple | 7 | 6 | BLAST +1 | |
| Real Staking Yield | 5 | 3 | BLAST +2 |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 2 | 4 | MANTA +2 | |
| Vesting Schedule | 2 | 3 | MANTA +1 | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Buyback and Burn | 1 | 1 | level |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Insider Selling | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Holder Concentration | 3 | 3 | level |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 3 | 2 | BLAST +1 | |
| Active Users | 3 | 2 | BLAST +1 | |
| Developer Activity | 4 | 3 | BLAST +1 | |
| Network Growth | 3 | 2 | BLAST +1 |
Position
| Market Share | 3 | 2 | BLAST +1 | |
| Competitive Moat | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Institutional Adoption | 2 | 2 | level | |
| Exchange Depth | 7 | 6 | BLAST +1 | |
| Social Mindshare | 4 | 2 | BLAST +2 |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 3 | 3 | level | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Team Execution | 4 | 3 | BLAST +1 | |
| Treasury Runway | 5 | 4 | BLAST +1 |
Bars read outward from the centre: BLAST to the left, MANTA 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
| BLAST | MANTA | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.000069 | $0.0644 |
| Market cap | $4.9M | $31.1M |
| Circulating | 70.8% | 48.2% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1.41x | 2.07x |
| Off all-time high | -99.76% | -98.4% |
| To recover the high | 416.7x | 62.5x |
| Total value locked | $280.0M | $22.0M |
| Network | Blast | Manta |
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
BLAST · PASS
Blast Big Bang network revival if native yield products attract real users beyond yield chasers
98.4% down from ATH; only 25% circulating with years of vesting pressure; yield farming narrative is played out
MANTA · PASS
Manta Pacific modular privacy layer adoption if privacy regulation becomes favorable
Down 97.4% from ATH; TVL evaporated; privacy narrative not resonating; team split between two chains diluting focus
Common questions
- Is BLAST or MANTA the better investment?
- On this framework BLAST scores higher: 87 against 76 of 250, and it is rated PASS against PASS. That is a ranking of fundamentals as recorded at the last scoring pass, not a price forecast, and BLAST still wins 12 of the 25 individual variables against MANTA.
- What is the biggest difference between BLAST and MANTA?
- 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, BLAST or MANTA?
- BLAST is valued at $4.9M and MANTA at $31.1M 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.