LPT vs MNDE
Livepeer and Marinade 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
LPT scores 123 of 250 and ranks 56th of 251. MNDE scores 119 and ranks 71st. LPT leads by 4 points, which is inside the range where the individual variables matter more than the total. LPT takes 6 of the 25 variables, MNDE takes 2, and 17 are level.
The framework rates LPT CAUTIOUS HOLD and MNDE WATCH. 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.
No single variable separates LPT and MNDE 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 Buyback and Burn. 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.
MNDE still has 45.4% of its eventual supply to enter circulation against 0% for LPT. On the same market capitalisation, a buyer of MNDE is taking the 1.83x dilution path and a buyer of LPT the 1x one.
LPT is valued at $82.2M against $15.6M for MNDE, a 5.3x 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 | 5 | 4 | LPT +1 | |
| Revenue Trend | 5 | 5 | level | |
| P/S Multiple | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Real Staking Yield | 5 | 5 | level |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Vesting Schedule | 6 | 6 | level | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 6 | 6 | level | |
| Buyback and Burn | 3 | 3 | level |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Insider Selling | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Holder Concentration | 4 | 4 | level |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 4 | 5 | MNDE +1 | |
| Active Users | 4 | 5 | MNDE +1 | |
| Developer Activity | 6 | 6 | level | |
| Network Growth | 5 | 5 | level |
Position
| Market Share | 6 | 5 | LPT +1 | |
| Competitive Moat | 6 | 5 | LPT +1 | |
| Institutional Adoption | 4 | 3 | LPT +1 | |
| Exchange Depth | 5 | 4 | LPT +1 | |
| Social Mindshare | 4 | 4 | level |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 6 | 5 | LPT +1 | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 4 | 4 | level | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Team Execution | 6 | 6 | level | |
| Treasury Runway | 5 | 5 | level |
Bars read outward from the centre: LPT to the left, MNDE 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
| LPT | MNDE | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.65 | $0.0286 |
| Market cap | $82.2M | $15.6M |
| Circulating | 100% | 54.6% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1x | 1.83x |
| Off all-time high | -98.3% | -98.3% |
| To recover the high | 58.8x | 58.8x |
| Total value locked | not published | not published |
| Network | Ethereum | Solana |
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
LPT · CAUTIOUS HOLD
AI video inference demand on Livepeer network, with 300+ new orchestrators onboarded by April 2025.
Competition from Render Network's video pipeline or AWS MediaConvert capturing 80%+ market share.
MNDE · WATCH
Solana staking growth & mSOL adoption; upcoming dual-governance upgrade
Competition from JitoSOL & liquid staking protocols; Solana network risk
Common questions
- Is LPT or MNDE the better investment?
- On this framework LPT scores higher: 123 against 119 of 250, and it is rated CAUTIOUS HOLD against WATCH. That is a ranking of fundamentals as recorded at the last scoring pass, not a price forecast, and LPT still wins 6 of the 25 individual variables against MNDE.
- What is the biggest difference between LPT and MNDE?
- 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, LPT or MNDE?
- LPT is valued at $82.2M and MNDE at $15.6M 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.