ETHFI vs LINK
Ether.fi and Chainlink 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
ETHFI scores 162 of 250 and ranks 12th of 251. LINK scores 165 and ranks 11th. LINK leads by 3 points, which is inside the range where the individual variables matter more than the total. ETHFI takes 10 of the 25 variables, LINK takes 11, and 4 are level.
5 variables separate them by 3 points or more. ETHFI is clear on Buyback and Burn (9 against 4), Insider Selling (7 against 3) and P/S Multiple (8 against 5). LINK is clear on Institutional Adoption (10 against 6) and Competitive Moat (9 against 6).
LINK still has 25.2% of its eventual supply to enter circulation against 3.5% for ETHFI. On the same market capitalisation, a buyer of LINK is taking the 1.34x dilution path and a buyer of ETHFI the 1.04x one.
LINK is valued at $10.01B against $680.1M for ETHFI, a 14.7x 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 | 7 | 6 | ETHFI +1 | |
| Revenue Trend | 7 | 7 | level | |
| P/S Multiple | 8 | 5 | ETHFI +3 | |
| Real Staking Yield | 7 | 5 | ETHFI +2 |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 5 | 3 | ETHFI +2 | |
| Vesting Schedule | 5 | 4 | ETHFI +1 | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 7 | 6 | ETHFI +1 | |
| Buyback and Burn | 9 | 4 | ETHFI +5 |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 7 | 8 | LINK +1 | |
| Insider Selling | 7 | 3 | ETHFI +4 | |
| Holder Concentration | 5 | 4 | ETHFI +1 |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 8 | 7 | ETHFI +1 | |
| Active Users | 6 | 7 | LINK +1 | |
| Developer Activity | 6 | 8 | LINK +2 | |
| Network Growth | 7 | 8 | LINK +1 |
Position
| Market Share | 8 | 8 | level | |
| Competitive Moat | 6 | 9 | LINK +3 | |
| Institutional Adoption | 6 | 10 | LINK +4 | |
| Exchange Depth | 5 | 8 | LINK +3 | |
| Social Mindshare | 5 | 7 | LINK +2 |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 6 | 9 | LINK +3 | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 7 | 9 | LINK +2 | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Team Execution | 7 | 9 | LINK +2 | |
| Treasury Runway | 7 | 7 | level |
Bars read outward from the centre: ETHFI to the left, LINK 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
| ETHFI | LINK | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.7042 | $13.37 |
| Market cap | $680.1M | $10.01B |
| Circulating | 96.5% | 74.8% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1.04x | 1.34x |
| Off all-time high | -91.7% | -74.6% |
| To recover the high | 12x | 3.9x |
| Total value locked | $7.80B | $32.00B |
| 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
ETHFI · HOLD
$50M buyback active (99% DAO approval), ETH staking ETF narrative, EtherFi Cash card
Token release to 2027, ETH price dependency, Lido competition (#1 LST)
LINK · HOLD
DTCC Collateral AppChain July test → Q4 production. CCIP v1.5 self-serve. Confidential Compute GA.
60-76M LINK/yr treasury dumps to Binance ($500M+/yr). Fees go to node ops, not LINK holders.
Common questions
- Is ETHFI or LINK the better investment?
- On this framework LINK scores higher: 165 against 162 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 ETHFI still wins 10 of the 25 individual variables against LINK.
- What is the biggest difference between ETHFI and LINK?
- Buyback and Burn. ETHFI scores 9 of 10 there and LINK scores 4, a gap of 5 points on a single variable.
- Which is bigger, ETHFI or LINK?
- ETHFI is valued at $680.1M and LINK at $10.01B 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.