KDA vs LRC
Kadena and Loopring 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
KDA scores 50 of 250 and ranks 250th of 251. LRC scores 78 and ranks 221st. LRC leads by 28 points, which is a wide enough margin that the framework is not ambivalent. KDA takes 0 of the 25 variables, LRC takes 24, and one is level.
No single variable separates KDA and LRC by as much as 3 points. The lead is broad rather than concentrated: LRC is ahead on 24 of 25 variables by one or two points each, which is what produces the composite gap without any one variable carrying it.
Both score 3 or below on Protocol Revenue, Revenue Trend, P/S Multiple, Buyback and Burn, Smart Money Flows, Real Staking Yield and 12 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.
KDA still has 66.1% of its eventual supply to enter circulation against 0% for LRC. On the same market capitalisation, a buyer of KDA is taking the 2.95x dilution path and a buyer of LRC the 1x one.
LRC is valued at $13.2M against $3.0M for KDA, a 4.3x 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 | 1 | 2 | LRC +1 | |
| Revenue Trend | 1 | 1 | level | |
| P/S Multiple | 2 | 3 | LRC +1 | |
| Real Staking Yield | 1 | 3 | LRC +2 |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 3 | 5 | LRC +2 | |
| Vesting Schedule | 4 | 6 | LRC +2 | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 5 | 6 | LRC +1 | |
| Buyback and Burn | 1 | 3 | LRC +2 |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 1 | 2 | LRC +1 | |
| Insider Selling | 3 | 4 | LRC +1 | |
| Holder Concentration | 3 | 4 | LRC +1 |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 1 | 2 | LRC +1 | |
| Active Users | 1 | 2 | LRC +1 | |
| Developer Activity | 2 | 3 | LRC +1 | |
| Network Growth | 1 | 2 | LRC +1 |
Position
| Market Share | 1 | 2 | LRC +1 | |
| Competitive Moat | 2 | 3 | LRC +1 | |
| Institutional Adoption | 1 | 2 | LRC +1 | |
| Exchange Depth | 2 | 3 | LRC +1 | |
| Social Mindshare | 1 | 2 | LRC +1 |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 6 | 7 | LRC +1 | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 1 | 2 | LRC +1 | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 1 | 2 | LRC +1 | |
| Team Execution | 2 | 3 | LRC +1 | |
| Treasury Runway | 3 | 4 | LRC +1 |
Bars read outward from the centre: KDA to the left, LRC 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
| KDA | LRC | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.008975 | $0.009622 |
| Market cap | $3.0M | $13.2M |
| Circulating | 33.9% | 100% |
| Dilution to full supply | 2.95x | 1x |
| Off all-time high | -99.968% | -99.74% |
| To recover the high | 3,125x | 384.6x |
| Total value locked | $300.0K | $18.0M |
| Network | Kadena | 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
KDA · PASS
Kadena SpireKey wallet and Marmalade NFT standard could attract niche developers
Near-zero TVL (<$500K), trading halted on Binance (data stale), PoW in 2026 is a liability not an asset
LRC · PASS
ZK-rollup technology still valid; Loopring 3.9 improvements could improve throughput for order-book DEX use case
Binance delisted LRC (stale data), negligible TVL vs. competing L2s, GameStop NFT marketplace shut down, no network growth
Common questions
- Is KDA or LRC the better investment?
- On this framework LRC scores higher: 78 against 50 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 KDA still wins 0 of the 25 individual variables against LRC.
- What is the biggest difference between KDA and LRC?
- 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, KDA or LRC?
- KDA is valued at $3.0M and LRC at $13.2M 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.