ETH vs GRT
Ethereum and The Graph 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
ETH scores 187 of 250 and ranks 2nd of 251. GRT scores 121 and ranks 63rd. ETH leads by 66 points, which is a wide enough margin that the framework is not ambivalent. ETH takes 24 of the 25 variables, GRT takes 0, and one is level.
The framework rates ETH HOLD CORE and GRT CAUTIOUS HOLD. 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. ETH is clear on Vesting Schedule (10 against 5), Smart Money Flows (9 against 4) and Institutional Adoption (10 against 5).
ETH is valued at $313.17B against $297.6M for GRT, a 1052.3x difference. The larger of the two also scores higher, so the market and the framework agree on the ordering here.
GRT trades 99.04% below its all-time high and ETH 48.2% below its own. Recovering the high needs 104.2x from GRT and 1.9x from ETH, 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 | 9 | 5 | ETH +4 | |
| Revenue Trend | 5 | 5 | level | |
| P/S Multiple | 5 | 4 | ETH +1 | |
| Real Staking Yield | 7 | 5 | ETH +2 |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 7 | 4 | ETH +3 | |
| Vesting Schedule | 10 | 5 | ETH +5 | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 10 | 7 | ETH +3 | |
| Buyback and Burn | 6 | 3 | ETH +3 |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 9 | 4 | ETH +5 | |
| Insider Selling | 7 | 5 | ETH +2 | |
| Holder Concentration | 6 | 5 | ETH +1 |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 6 | 4 | ETH +2 | |
| Active Users | 8 | 5 | ETH +3 | |
| Developer Activity | 7 | 6 | ETH +1 | |
| Network Growth | 8 | 5 | ETH +3 |
Position
| Market Share | 7 | 6 | ETH +1 | |
| Competitive Moat | 8 | 5 | ETH +3 | |
| Institutional Adoption | 10 | 5 | ETH +5 | |
| Exchange Depth | 10 | 6 | ETH +4 | |
| Social Mindshare | 6 | 4 | ETH +2 |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 10 | 7 | ETH +3 | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 8 | 4 | ETH +4 | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 4 | 1 | ETH +3 | |
| Team Execution | 6 | 5 | ETH +1 | |
| Treasury Runway | 8 | 6 | ETH +2 |
Bars read outward from the centre: ETH to the left, GRT 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
| ETH | GRT | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2,564 | $0.0272 |
| Market cap | $313.17B | $297.6M |
| Circulating | 100% | 94.2% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1x | 1.06x |
| Off all-time high | -48.2% | -99.04% |
| To recover the high | 1.9x | 104.2x |
| Total value locked | $46.17B | not published |
| 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
ETH · HOLD CORE
Glamsterdam ePBS (Q3 2026), CLARITY Act (the 4 July 2026 signing target was missed, the bill stalled in the Senate), staking ETF expansion
Burn collapsed (-71% post-Pectra), ETH/BTC 10mo low, 9 EF departures, identity crisis
GRT · CAUTIOUS HOLD
GRT as default indexing layer for AI agents querying blockchain data; Arbitrum and L2 growth
Continuous token inflation from indexer/curator rewards; 99% down from ATH; query fees growing slowly vs token emissions
Common questions
- Is ETH or GRT the better investment?
- On this framework ETH scores higher: 187 against 121 of 250, and it is rated HOLD CORE against CAUTIOUS HOLD. That is a ranking of fundamentals as recorded at the last scoring pass, not a price forecast, and ETH still wins 24 of the 25 individual variables against GRT.
- What is the biggest difference between ETH and GRT?
- Vesting Schedule. ETH scores 10 of 10 there and GRT scores 5, a gap of 5 points on a single variable.
- Which is bigger, ETH or GRT?
- ETH is valued at $313.17B and GRT at $297.6M 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.