CTSI vs MC
Cartesi and Merit Circle (Beam) 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
CTSI scores 96 of 250 and ranks 161st of 251. MC scores 101 and ranks 135th. MC leads by 5 points, which is inside the range where the individual variables matter more than the total. CTSI takes 0 of the 25 variables, MC takes 5, and 20 are level.
The framework rates CTSI PASS and MC WATCH. 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 CTSI and MC 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, Real Staking Yield, TVL Trend, Market Share 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.
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 | 3 | MC +1 | |
| Revenue Trend | 3 | 3 | level | |
| P/S Multiple | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Real Staking Yield | 3 | 3 | level |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Vesting Schedule | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Buyback and Burn | 2 | 3 | MC +1 |
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 | 3 | 4 | MC +1 | |
| Developer Activity | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Network Growth | 4 | 4 | level |
Position
| Market Share | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Competitive Moat | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Institutional Adoption | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Exchange Depth | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Social Mindshare | 3 | 4 | MC +1 |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 4 | 4 | level | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 3 | 4 | MC +1 | |
| Team Execution | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Treasury Runway | 5 | 5 | level |
Bars read outward from the centre: CTSI to the left, MC 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
| CTSI | MC | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.0290 | not published |
| Market cap | $27.7M | not published |
| Circulating | 95.3% | 100% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1.05x | 1x |
| Off all-time high | -98.3% | n/a |
| To recover the high | 58.8x | n/a |
| Total value locked | not published | not published |
| Network | Ethereum | Beam |
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
CTSI · PASS
Cartesi Rollups mainnet launch enabling Linux-based DApp development
Slow developer adoption vs. EVM-compatible L2s like Arbitrum/Optimism
MC · WATCH
Merit Circle/Beam gaming guild expansion and token utility in partner games and metaverse projects.
Dependence on volatile play-to-earn game economies and potential guild token devaluation.
Common questions
- Is CTSI or MC the better investment?
- On this framework MC 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 CTSI still wins 0 of the 25 individual variables against MC.
- What is the biggest difference between CTSI and MC?
- 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.
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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.