LRC vs ZIL
Loopring and Zilliqa 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
LRC scores 78 of 250 and ranks 221st of 251. ZIL scores 63 and ranks 242nd. LRC leads by 15 points, which is a real gap, though small enough that one variable moving would close much of it. LRC takes 16 of the 25 variables, ZIL takes 2, and 7 are level.
No single variable separates LRC and ZIL by as much as 3 points. The lead is broad rather than concentrated: LRC is ahead on 16 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, TVL Trend and 10 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.
ZIL is valued at $64.9M against $13.2M for LRC, a 4.9x difference. The smaller of the two scores higher on fundamentals, which is the disagreement worth understanding before either position is taken.
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 | 1 | LRC +1 | |
| Revenue Trend | 1 | 1 | level | |
| P/S Multiple | 3 | 2 | LRC +1 | |
| Real Staking Yield | 3 | 4 | ZIL +1 |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Vesting Schedule | 6 | 6 | level | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 6 | 6 | level | |
| Buyback and Burn | 3 | 1 | LRC +2 |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 2 | 1 | LRC +1 | |
| Insider Selling | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Holder Concentration | 4 | 3 | LRC +1 |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 2 | 1 | LRC +1 | |
| Active Users | 2 | 1 | LRC +1 | |
| Developer Activity | 3 | 2 | LRC +1 | |
| Network Growth | 2 | 1 | LRC +1 |
Position
| Market Share | 2 | 1 | LRC +1 | |
| Competitive Moat | 3 | 1 | LRC +2 | |
| Institutional Adoption | 2 | 1 | LRC +1 | |
| Exchange Depth | 3 | 5 | ZIL +2 | |
| Social Mindshare | 2 | 1 | LRC +1 |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 7 | 7 | level | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 2 | 2 | level | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 2 | 1 | LRC +1 | |
| Team Execution | 3 | 2 | LRC +1 | |
| Treasury Runway | 4 | 3 | LRC +1 |
Bars read outward from the centre: LRC to the left, ZIL 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
| LRC | ZIL | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.009622 | $0.003325 |
| Market cap | $13.2M | $64.9M |
| Circulating | 100% | 92.9% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1x | 1.08x |
| Off all-time high | -99.74% | -98.7% |
| To recover the high | 384.6x | 76.9x |
| Total value locked | $18.0M | $1.2M |
| Network | Ethereum | Zilliqa |
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
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
ZIL · PASS
Zilliqa 2.0 EVM upgrade could attract some EVM developers
Irrelevant tech, ghost network, near-zero TVL, no institutional interest
Common questions
- Is LRC or ZIL the better investment?
- On this framework LRC scores higher: 78 against 63 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 LRC still wins 16 of the 25 individual variables against ZIL.
- What is the biggest difference between LRC and ZIL?
- 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, LRC or ZIL?
- LRC is valued at $13.2M and ZIL at $64.9M 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.