POL vs QUICK
Polygon system Token and QuickSwap 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
POL scores 123 of 250 and ranks 56th of 251. QUICK scores 105 and ranks 115th. POL leads by 18 points, which is a real gap, though small enough that one variable moving would close much of it. POL takes 16 of the 25 variables, QUICK takes 6, and 3 are level.
The framework rates POL CAUTIOUS HOLD and QUICK 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.
2 variables separate them by 3 points or more. POL is clear on Institutional Adoption (6 against 3) and Exchange Depth (7 against 4).
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.
QUICK still has 34.4% of its eventual supply to enter circulation against 0% for POL. On the same market capitalisation, a buyer of QUICK is taking the 1.52x dilution path and a buyer of POL the 1x one.
POL is valued at $1.08B against $7.0M for QUICK, a 153.9x 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 | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Revenue Trend | 4 | 4 | level | |
| P/S Multiple | 4 | 5 | QUICK +1 | |
| Real Staking Yield | 5 | 4 | POL +1 |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 3 | 5 | QUICK +2 | |
| Vesting Schedule | 3 | 5 | QUICK +2 | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 4 | 5 | QUICK +1 | |
| Buyback and Burn | 3 | 3 | level |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 5 | 3 | POL +2 | |
| Insider Selling | 4 | 5 | QUICK +1 | |
| Holder Concentration | 5 | 4 | POL +1 |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 5 | 4 | POL +1 | |
| Active Users | 6 | 4 | POL +2 | |
| Developer Activity | 7 | 5 | POL +2 | |
| Network Growth | 6 | 4 | POL +2 |
Position
| Market Share | 5 | 4 | POL +1 | |
| Competitive Moat | 5 | 4 | POL +1 | |
| Institutional Adoption | 6 | 3 | POL +3 | |
| Exchange Depth | 7 | 4 | POL +3 | |
| Social Mindshare | 5 | 3 | POL +2 |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 7 | 5 | POL +2 | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 5 | 4 | POL +1 | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 3 | 4 | QUICK +1 | |
| Team Execution | 6 | 5 | POL +1 | |
| Treasury Runway | 6 | 5 | POL +1 |
Bars read outward from the centre: POL to the left, QUICK 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
| POL | QUICK | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.1020 | $0.0107 |
| Market cap | $1.08B | $7.0M |
| Circulating | 100% | 65.6% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1x | 1.52x |
| Off all-time high | -92.1% | -95.3% |
| To recover the high | 12.7x | 21.3x |
| Total value locked | $650.0M | not published |
| Network | Polygon | Polygon |
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
POL · CAUTIOUS HOLD
AggLayer connecting all Polygon CDK chains into unified liquidity layer; ETH Foundation alignment
Only 38% circulating; MATIC migration not fully complete; AggLayer adoption slower than expected
QUICK · WATCH
Polygon zkEVM migration and DEX volume growth; QuickSwap's Dragon’s Lair staking boosts yield demand.
Intense DEX competition on Polygon (Uniswap, Balancer); token inflation from staking rewards dilutes holders.
Common questions
- Is POL or QUICK the better investment?
- On this framework POL scores higher: 123 against 105 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 POL still wins 16 of the 25 individual variables against QUICK.
- What is the biggest difference between POL and QUICK?
- Institutional Adoption. POL scores 6 of 10 there and QUICK scores 3, a gap of 3 points on a single variable.
- Which is bigger, POL or QUICK?
- POL is valued at $1.08B and QUICK at $7.0M 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.