ETC vs PEPE
Ethereum Classic and Pepe 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
ETC scores 90 of 250 and ranks 192nd of 251. PEPE scores 92 and ranks 184th. PEPE leads by 2 points, which is inside the range where the individual variables matter more than the total. ETC takes 10 of the 25 variables, PEPE takes 10, and 5 are level.
5 variables separate them by 3 points or more. ETC is clear on P/S Multiple (4 against 1) and Developer Activity (4 against 1). PEPE is clear on Market Share (7 against 3), Social Mindshare (8 against 4) and Circulating / FDV Ratio (8 against 5).
Both score 3 or below on Protocol Revenue, Revenue Trend, Buyback and Burn, Real Staking Yield, TVL Trend, Network Growth 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.
ETC still has 24.7% of its eventual supply to enter circulation against 0% for PEPE. On the same market capitalisation, a buyer of ETC is taking the 1.33x dilution path and a buyer of PEPE the 1x one.
PEPE is valued at $1.70B against $1.32B for ETC, a 1.3x 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 | 1 | ETC +1 | |
| Revenue Trend | 2 | 1 | ETC +1 | |
| P/S Multiple | 4 | 1 | ETC +3 | |
| Real Staking Yield | 1 | 1 | level |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 4 | 6 | PEPE +2 | |
| Vesting Schedule | 5 | 6 | PEPE +1 | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 5 | 8 | PEPE +3 | |
| Buyback and Burn | 1 | 1 | level |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 3 | 4 | PEPE +1 | |
| Insider Selling | 6 | 4 | ETC +2 | |
| Holder Concentration | 5 | 4 | ETC +1 |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 2 | 1 | ETC +1 | |
| Active Users | 3 | 5 | PEPE +2 | |
| Developer Activity | 4 | 1 | ETC +3 | |
| Network Growth | 3 | 3 | level |
Position
| Market Share | 3 | 7 | PEPE +4 | |
| Competitive Moat | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Institutional Adoption | 4 | 2 | ETC +2 | |
| Exchange Depth | 6 | 8 | PEPE +2 | |
| Social Mindshare | 4 | 8 | PEPE +4 |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 5 | 6 | PEPE +1 | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 3 | 3 | level | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 3 | 5 | PEPE +2 | |
| Team Execution | 4 | 1 | ETC +3 | |
| Treasury Runway | 4 | 1 | ETC +3 |
Bars read outward from the centre: ETC to the left, PEPE 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
| ETC | PEPE | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.32 | $0.000004 |
| Market cap | $1.32B | $1.70B |
| Circulating | 75.3% | 100% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1.33x | 1x |
| Off all-time high | -95% | -85.6% |
| To recover the high | 20x | 6.9x |
| Total value locked | not published | not published |
| Network | ETC | 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
ETC · PASS
PoW narrative revival; potential ETF speculation as Bitcoin alternative.
Low developer activity vs. ETH; 51% attack history concerns.
PEPE · PASS
Ethereum bull market amplification; PEPE as ETH meme equivalent to DOGE on BTC; high CEX liquidity
Zero protocol revenue or utility; 6% supply still to open from deployer wallet; pure sentiment asset; rapid drawdowns in risk-off environments
Common questions
- Is ETC or PEPE the better investment?
- On this framework PEPE scores higher: 92 against 90 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 ETC still wins 10 of the 25 individual variables against PEPE.
- What is the biggest difference between ETC and PEPE?
- Market Share. ETC scores 3 of 10 there and PEPE scores 7, a gap of 4 points on a single variable.
- Which is bigger, ETC or PEPE?
- ETC is valued at $1.32B and PEPE at $1.70B 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.