QNT vs XLM
Quant and Stellar 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
QNT scores 116 of 250 and ranks 81st of 251. XLM scores 108 and ranks 100th. QNT leads by 8 points, which is inside the range where the individual variables matter more than the total. QNT takes 10 of the 25 variables, XLM takes 4, and 11 are level.
No single variable separates QNT and XLM 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, Real Staking Yield, TVL Trend. 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.
XLM still has 29.9% of its eventual supply to enter circulation against 0.5% for QNT. On the same market capitalisation, a buyer of XLM is taking the 1.43x dilution path and a buyer of QNT the 1x one.
XLM is valued at $7.01B against $3.53B for QNT, a 2.0x difference. The smaller of the two scores higher on fundamentals, which is the disagreement worth understanding before either position is taken.
XLM trades 77.1% below its all-time high and QNT 43.3% below its own. Recovering the high needs 4.4x from XLM and 1.8x from QNT, which is the same statement read as the return each one has to produce.
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 | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Revenue Trend | 4 | 3 | QNT +1 | |
| P/S Multiple | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Real Staking Yield | 2 | 3 | XLM +1 |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 6 | 5 | QNT +1 | |
| Vesting Schedule | 7 | 5 | QNT +2 | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 7 | 5 | QNT +2 | |
| Buyback and Burn | 2 | 3 | XLM +1 |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 5 | 4 | QNT +1 | |
| Insider Selling | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Holder Concentration | 4 | 4 | level |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Active Users | 3 | 4 | XLM +1 | |
| Developer Activity | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Network Growth | 4 | 4 | level |
Position
| Market Share | 5 | 4 | QNT +1 | |
| Competitive Moat | 6 | 5 | QNT +1 | |
| Institutional Adoption | 6 | 5 | QNT +1 | |
| Exchange Depth | 5 | 6 | XLM +1 | |
| Social Mindshare | 5 | 4 | QNT +1 |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 6 | 6 | level | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 4 | 4 | level | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 4 | 3 | QNT +1 | |
| Team Execution | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Treasury Runway | 6 | 6 | level |
Bars read outward from the centre: QNT to the left, XLM 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
| QNT | XLM | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $242.14 | $0.2001 |
| Market cap | $3.53B | $7.01B |
| Circulating | 99.5% | 70.1% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1x | 1.43x |
| Off all-time high | -43.3% | -77.1% |
| To recover the high | 1.8x | 4.4x |
| Total value locked | not published | not published |
| Network | Ethereum | Stellar |
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
QNT · WATCH
Overledger enterprise partnerships (e.g., Oracle, SIA); ISO 20022 compliance
Centralized token supply; slow real-world adoption vs. Hyperledger/Corda
XLM · WATCH
Stellar's cross-border payment partnerships (e.g., MoneyGram); Soroban smart contract adoption, live on mainnet since early 2024.
Slow payment adoption vs. XRP; limited DeFi network; regulatory uncertainty.
Common questions
- Is QNT or XLM the better investment?
- On this framework QNT scores higher: 116 against 108 of 250, and it is rated WATCH against WATCH. That is a ranking of fundamentals as recorded at the last scoring pass, not a price forecast, and QNT still wins 10 of the 25 individual variables against XLM.
- What is the biggest difference between QNT and XLM?
- 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, QNT or XLM?
- QNT is valued at $3.53B and XLM at $7.01B 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.