ETC vs YGG
Ethereum Classic and Yield Guild Games 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. YGG scores 95 and ranks 167th. YGG leads by 5 points, which is inside the range where the individual variables matter more than the total. ETC takes 4 of the 25 variables, YGG takes 9, and 12 are level.
No single variable separates ETC and YGG 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, Active Users 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 is valued at $1.32B against $22.5M for YGG, a 58.7x 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 | 2 | level | |
| Revenue Trend | 2 | 3 | YGG +1 | |
| P/S Multiple | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Real Staking Yield | 1 | 2 | YGG +1 |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Vesting Schedule | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Buyback and Burn | 1 | 2 | YGG +1 |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 3 | 4 | YGG +1 | |
| Insider Selling | 6 | 5 | ETC +1 | |
| Holder Concentration | 5 | 4 | ETC +1 |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 2 | 3 | YGG +1 | |
| Active Users | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Developer Activity | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Network Growth | 3 | 4 | YGG +1 |
Position
| Market Share | 3 | 4 | YGG +1 | |
| Competitive Moat | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Institutional Adoption | 4 | 3 | ETC +1 | |
| Exchange Depth | 6 | 5 | ETC +1 | |
| Social Mindshare | 4 | 4 | level |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 3 | 4 | YGG +1 | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Team Execution | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Treasury Runway | 4 | 5 | YGG +1 |
Bars read outward from the centre: ETC to the left, YGG 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 | YGG | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.32 | $0.0250 |
| Market cap | $1.32B | $22.5M |
| Circulating | 75.3% | 90% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1.33x | 1.11x |
| Off all-time high | -95% | -99.78% |
| To recover the high | 20x | 454.5x |
| 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.
YGG · PASS
Guild treasury growth and Web3 gaming adoption via scholarship model
Dependence on game token prices and play-to-earn sustainability
Common questions
- Is ETC or YGG the better investment?
- On this framework YGG scores higher: 95 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 4 of the 25 individual variables against YGG.
- What is the biggest difference between ETC and YGG?
- 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, ETC or YGG?
- ETC is valued at $1.32B and YGG at $22.5M 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.