NEO vs QTUM
Neo and Qtum 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
NEO scores 68 of 250 and ranks 236th of 251. QTUM scores 61 and ranks 245th. NEO leads by 7 points, which is inside the range where the individual variables matter more than the total. NEO takes 13 of the 25 variables, QTUM takes 4, and 8 are level.
One variable separates them by 3 points or more. QTUM is clear on Circulating / FDV Ratio (8 against 5).
Both score 3 or below on Protocol Revenue, Revenue Trend, P/S Multiple, Buyback and Burn, Smart Money Flows, Insider Selling and 11 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.
NEO still has 29.5% of its eventual supply to enter circulation against 1.6% for QTUM. On the same market capitalisation, a buyer of NEO is taking the 1.42x dilution path and a buyer of QTUM the 1.02x one.
NEO is valued at $166.5M against $97.7M for QTUM, a 1.7x 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 | 2 | 1 | NEO +1 | |
| Revenue Trend | 1 | 1 | level | |
| P/S Multiple | 2 | 2 | level | |
| Real Staking Yield | 4 | 4 | level |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 5 | 6 | QTUM +1 | |
| Vesting Schedule | 5 | 7 | QTUM +2 | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 5 | 8 | QTUM +3 | |
| Buyback and Burn | 2 | 1 | NEO +1 |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 2 | 1 | NEO +1 | |
| Insider Selling | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Holder Concentration | 4 | 3 | NEO +1 |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 1 | 1 | level | |
| Active Users | 1 | 1 | level | |
| Developer Activity | 3 | 1 | NEO +2 | |
| Network Growth | 1 | 1 | level |
Position
| Market Share | 1 | 1 | level | |
| Competitive Moat | 2 | 1 | NEO +1 | |
| Institutional Adoption | 2 | 1 | NEO +1 | |
| Exchange Depth | 5 | 4 | NEO +1 | |
| Social Mindshare | 2 | 1 | NEO +1 |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 3 | 5 | QTUM +2 | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 2 | 1 | NEO +1 | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 2 | 1 | NEO +1 | |
| Team Execution | 3 | 2 | NEO +1 | |
| Treasury Runway | 5 | 3 | NEO +2 |
Bars read outward from the centre: NEO to the left, QTUM 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
| NEO | QTUM | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.36 | $0.9209 |
| Market cap | $166.5M | $97.7M |
| Circulating | 70.5% | 98.4% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1.42x | 1.02x |
| Off all-time high | -98.8% | -99.08% |
| To recover the high | 83.3x | 108.7x |
| Total value locked | $5.0M | $800.0K |
| Network | Neo | Qtum |
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
NEO · PASS
Neo X EVM sidechain launched to attract Solidity developers; NeoFS decentralized storage could see enterprise use
Developer community minimal, China crypto regulations remain hostile, network produces GAS income but no protocol value accrual
QTUM · PASS
None identifiable, chain is in maintenance mode with minimal development activity
Effectively dead network, volume at historical lows, no institutional interest, zero DeFi innovation
Common questions
- Is NEO or QTUM the better investment?
- On this framework NEO scores higher: 68 against 61 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 NEO still wins 13 of the 25 individual variables against QTUM.
- What is the biggest difference between NEO and QTUM?
- Circulating / FDV Ratio. NEO scores 5 of 10 there and QTUM scores 8, a gap of 3 points on a single variable.
- Which is bigger, NEO or QTUM?
- NEO is valued at $166.5M and QTUM at $97.7M 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.