POOL vs SHDW
PoolTogether and Shadow Token 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
POOL scores 96 of 250 and ranks 161st of 251. SHDW scores 103 and ranks 124th. SHDW leads by 7 points, which is inside the range where the individual variables matter more than the total. POOL takes 1 of the 25 variables, SHDW takes 8, and 16 are level.
The framework rates POOL PASS and SHDW 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 POOL and SHDW 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 Protocol Revenue, Buyback and Burn, Institutional Adoption, Exchange Depth. 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.
SHDW is valued at $5.3M against $176.3K for POOL, a 30.1x 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 | 3 | SHDW +1 | |
| Revenue Trend | 3 | 4 | SHDW +1 | |
| P/S Multiple | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Real Staking Yield | 3 | 4 | SHDW +1 |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Vesting Schedule | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Buyback and Burn | 2 | 2 | level |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Insider Selling | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Holder Concentration | 4 | 4 | level |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 3 | 4 | SHDW +1 | |
| Active Users | 3 | 4 | SHDW +1 | |
| Developer Activity | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Network Growth | 4 | 4 | level |
Position
| Market Share | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Competitive Moat | 5 | 4 | POOL +1 | |
| Institutional Adoption | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Exchange Depth | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Social Mindshare | 3 | 4 | SHDW +1 |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 3 | 4 | SHDW +1 | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 3 | 4 | SHDW +1 | |
| Team Execution | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Treasury Runway | 5 | 5 | level |
Bars read outward from the centre: POOL to the left, SHDW 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
| POOL | SHDW | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.0183 | $0.0314 |
| Market cap | $176.3K | $5.3M |
| Circulating | 96.1% | 100% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1.04x | 1x |
| Off all-time high | -99.966% | -98.9% |
| To recover the high | 2,941x | 90.9x |
| 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
POOL · PASS
Vault growth and no-loss lottery adoption via Prize Savings Accounts on L2s
Regulatory risk as prize-linked savings may face securities classification
SHDW · WATCH
GenesysGo storage demand from Solana network growth and potential SHDW token utility expansion.
Dependence on Solana network health and competition from other decentralized storage solutions.
Common questions
- Is POOL or SHDW the better investment?
- On this framework SHDW scores higher: 103 against 96 of 250, and it is rated WATCH against PASS. That is a ranking of fundamentals as recorded at the last scoring pass, not a price forecast, and POOL still wins 1 of the 25 individual variables against SHDW.
- What is the biggest difference between POOL and SHDW?
- 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, POOL or SHDW?
- POOL is valued at $176.3K and SHDW at $5.3M 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.