CRV vs LDO
Curve Finance and Lido DAO 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
CRV scores 140 of 250 and ranks 32nd of 251. LDO scores 146 and ranks 23rd. LDO leads by 6 points, which is inside the range where the individual variables matter more than the total. CRV takes 7 of the 25 variables, LDO takes 13, and 5 are level.
One variable separates them by 3 points or more. CRV is clear on Real Staking Yield (6 against 3).
Both score 3 or below on Buyback and Burn. 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.
CRV still has 48.1% of its eventual supply to enter circulation against 17% for LDO. On the same market capitalisation, a buyer of CRV is taking the 1.93x dilution path and a buyer of LDO the 1.21x one.
CRV is valued at $552.7M against $353.8M for LDO, a 1.6x 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 | 8 | 7 | CRV +1 | |
| Revenue Trend | 6 | 6 | level | |
| P/S Multiple | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Real Staking Yield | 6 | 3 | CRV +3 |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 5 | 7 | LDO +2 | |
| Vesting Schedule | 7 | 7 | level | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 7 | 8 | LDO +1 | |
| Buyback and Burn | 3 | 2 | CRV +1 |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 5 | 6 | LDO +1 | |
| Insider Selling | 4 | 5 | LDO +1 | |
| Holder Concentration | 4 | 5 | LDO +1 |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 7 | 6 | CRV +1 | |
| Active Users | 5 | 6 | LDO +1 | |
| Developer Activity | 8 | 6 | CRV +2 | |
| Network Growth | 7 | 6 | CRV +1 |
Position
| Market Share | 7 | 8 | LDO +1 | |
| Competitive Moat | 8 | 7 | CRV +1 | |
| Institutional Adoption | 4 | 6 | LDO +2 | |
| Exchange Depth | 6 | 7 | LDO +1 | |
| Social Mindshare | 4 | 5 | LDO +1 |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 6 | 6 | level | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 2 | 4 | LDO +2 | |
| Team Execution | 5 | 6 | LDO +1 | |
| Treasury Runway | 6 | 7 | LDO +1 |
Bars read outward from the centre: CRV to the left, LDO 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
| CRV | LDO | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.3514 | $0.4263 |
| Market cap | $552.7M | $353.8M |
| Circulating | 51.9% | 83% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1.93x | 1.21x |
| Off all-time high | -97.7% | -94.2% |
| To recover the high | 43.5x | 17.2x |
| Total value locked | $3.20B | $21.50B |
| 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
CRV · HOLD
Yield Basis mainnet, crvUSD growth, 44% ETH DEX fee revenue share
Egorov liquidated TWICE ($140M+), -96% from ATH, Uniswap V4 competition
LDO · HOLD
LDO fee switch enabling token buybacks or staker rewards expected Q3 2026
Ethereum staking yield compression; regulatory risk on liquid staking; DVT transition diluting Lido moat
Common questions
- Is CRV or LDO the better investment?
- On this framework LDO scores higher: 146 against 140 of 250, and it is rated HOLD against HOLD. That is a ranking of fundamentals as recorded at the last scoring pass, not a price forecast, and CRV still wins 7 of the 25 individual variables against LDO.
- What is the biggest difference between CRV and LDO?
- Real Staking Yield. CRV scores 6 of 10 there and LDO scores 3, a gap of 3 points on a single variable.
- Which is bigger, CRV or LDO?
- CRV is valued at $552.7M and LDO at $353.8M 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.