IOTX vs SKL
IoTeX and SKALE 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
IOTX scores 98 of 250 and ranks 150th of 251. SKL scores 97 and ranks 155th. IOTX leads by 1 points, which is inside the range where the individual variables matter more than the total. IOTX takes 1 of the 25 variables, SKL takes 0, and 24 are level.
No single variable separates IOTX and SKL 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, TVL Trend, Active Users, Market Share and 3 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.
IOTX is valued at $34.2M against $26.6M for SKL, 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 | 2 | level | |
| Revenue Trend | 3 | 3 | level | |
| P/S Multiple | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Real Staking Yield | 4 | 4 | level |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Vesting Schedule | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Buyback and Burn | 2 | 2 | level |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 4 | 3 | IOTX +1 | |
| Insider Selling | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Holder Concentration | 4 | 4 | level |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Active Users | 3 | 3 | level | |
| 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 | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Social Mindshare | 3 | 3 | level |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 4 | 4 | level | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Team Execution | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Treasury Runway | 5 | 5 | level |
Bars read outward from the centre: IOTX to the left, SKL 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
| IOTX | SKL | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.003620 | $0.004369 |
| Market cap | $34.2M | $26.6M |
| Circulating | 94.4% | 87.1% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1.06x | 1.15x |
| Off all-time high | -98.6% | -99.64% |
| To recover the high | 71.4x | 277.8x |
| Total value locked | not published | not published |
| Network | IoTeX | 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
IOTX · PASS
MachineFi and DePIN narrative; W3bstream mainnet for real-world device data verification.
Fragmented IoT blockchain competition; slow enterprise adoption and token supply dilution.
SKL · PASS
Zero-gas fee L2 scaling for gaming and metaverse; elastic sidechains with 2-second finality.
Intense L2 competition from Arbitrum and Optimism; limited dApp migration to SKALE.
Common questions
- Is IOTX or SKL the better investment?
- On this framework IOTX scores higher: 98 against 97 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 IOTX still wins 1 of the 25 individual variables against SKL.
- What is the biggest difference between IOTX and SKL?
- 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, IOTX or SKL?
- IOTX is valued at $34.2M and SKL at $26.6M 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.