CBETH vs QTUM
Coinbase Wrapped Staked ETH and Qtum 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
CBETH scores 158 of 250 and ranks 15th of 251. QTUM scores 61 and ranks 245th. CBETH leads by 97 points, which is a wide enough margin that the framework is not ambivalent. CBETH takes 25 of the 25 variables, QTUM takes 0, and none are level.
The framework rates CBETH HOLD and QTUM 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.
5 variables separate them by 3 points or more. CBETH is clear on Institutional Adoption (8 against 1), Smart Money Flows (7 against 1) and Protocol Revenue (6 against 1).
CBETH still has 55.7% of its eventual supply to enter circulation against 1.6% for QTUM. On the same market capitalisation, a buyer of CBETH is taking the 2.26x dilution path and a buyer of QTUM the 1.02x one.
CBETH is valued at $484.5M against $97.7M for QTUM, a 5.0x difference. The larger of the two also scores higher, so the market and the framework agree on the ordering here.
QTUM trades 99.08% below its all-time high and CBETH 46.2% below its own. Recovering the high needs 108.7x from QTUM and 1.9x from CBETH, which is the same statement read as the return each one has to produce.
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 | 6 | 1 | CBETH +5 | |
| Revenue Trend | 6 | 1 | CBETH +5 | |
| P/S Multiple | 6 | 2 | CBETH +4 | |
| Real Staking Yield | 8 | 4 | CBETH +4 |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 8 | 6 | CBETH +2 | |
| Vesting Schedule | 10 | 7 | CBETH +3 | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 10 | 8 | CBETH +2 | |
| Buyback and Burn | 4 | 1 | CBETH +3 |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 7 | 1 | CBETH +6 | |
| Insider Selling | 7 | 3 | CBETH +4 | |
| Holder Concentration | 6 | 3 | CBETH +3 |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 5 | 1 | CBETH +4 | |
| Active Users | 6 | 1 | CBETH +5 | |
| Developer Activity | 5 | 1 | CBETH +4 | |
| Network Growth | 5 | 1 | CBETH +4 |
Position
| Market Share | 6 | 1 | CBETH +5 | |
| Competitive Moat | 5 | 1 | CBETH +4 | |
| Institutional Adoption | 8 | 1 | CBETH +7 | |
| Exchange Depth | 5 | 4 | CBETH +1 | |
| Social Mindshare | 5 | 1 | CBETH +4 |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 6 | 5 | CBETH +1 | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 5 | 1 | CBETH +4 | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 5 | 1 | CBETH +4 | |
| Team Execution | 6 | 2 | CBETH +4 | |
| Treasury Runway | 8 | 3 | CBETH +5 |
Bars read outward from the centre: CBETH to the left, QTUM 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
| CBETH | QTUM | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2,927 | $0.9209 |
| Market cap | $484.5M | $97.7M |
| Circulating | 44.3% | 98.4% |
| Dilution to full supply | 2.26x | 1.02x |
| Off all-time high | -46.2% | -99.08% |
| To recover the high | 1.9x | 108.7x |
| Total value locked | $1.80B | $800.0K |
| Network | Ethereum | Qtum |
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
CBETH · HOLD
Coinbase institutional distribution gives cbETH unique access to TradFi investors; ETF integrations possible
Fully custodial, Coinbase controls withdrawal keys; regulatory risk against Coinbase directly impacts token; lower yield than competitors
QTUM · PASS
None identifiable, chain is in maintenance mode with minimal development activity
Effectively dead network, volume at historical lows, no institutional interest, zero DeFi innovation
Common questions
- Is CBETH or QTUM the better investment?
- On this framework CBETH scores higher: 158 against 61 of 250, and it is rated HOLD against PASS. That is a ranking of fundamentals as recorded at the last scoring pass, not a price forecast, and CBETH still wins 25 of the 25 individual variables against QTUM.
- What is the biggest difference between CBETH and QTUM?
- Institutional Adoption. CBETH scores 8 of 10 there and QTUM scores 1, a gap of 7 points on a single variable.
- Which is bigger, CBETH or QTUM?
- CBETH is valued at $484.5M and QTUM at $97.7M 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.