QTUM vs ZIL
Qtum 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
QTUM scores 61 of 250 and ranks 245th of 251. ZIL scores 63 and ranks 242nd. ZIL leads by 2 points, which is inside the range where the individual variables matter more than the total. QTUM takes 3 of the 25 variables, ZIL takes 5, and 17 are level.
No single variable separates QTUM and ZIL 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, Revenue Trend, P/S Multiple, Buyback and Burn, Smart Money Flows, Holder Concentration and 12 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.
QTUM is valued at $97.7M against $64.9M for ZIL, a 1.5x 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 | 1 | 1 | level | |
| Revenue Trend | 1 | 1 | level | |
| P/S Multiple | 2 | 2 | level | |
| Real Staking Yield | 4 | 4 | level |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 6 | 5 | QTUM +1 | |
| Vesting Schedule | 7 | 6 | QTUM +1 | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 8 | 6 | QTUM +2 | |
| Buyback and Burn | 1 | 1 | level |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 1 | 1 | level | |
| Insider Selling | 3 | 4 | ZIL +1 | |
| Holder Concentration | 3 | 3 | level |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 1 | 1 | level | |
| Active Users | 1 | 1 | level | |
| Developer Activity | 1 | 2 | ZIL +1 | |
| Network Growth | 1 | 1 | level |
Position
| Market Share | 1 | 1 | level | |
| Competitive Moat | 1 | 1 | level | |
| Institutional Adoption | 1 | 1 | level | |
| Exchange Depth | 4 | 5 | ZIL +1 | |
| Social Mindshare | 1 | 1 | level |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 5 | 7 | ZIL +2 | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 1 | 2 | ZIL +1 | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 1 | 1 | level | |
| Team Execution | 2 | 2 | level | |
| Treasury Runway | 3 | 3 | level |
Bars read outward from the centre: QTUM 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
| QTUM | ZIL | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.9209 | $0.003325 |
| Market cap | $97.7M | $64.9M |
| Circulating | 98.4% | 92.9% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1.02x | 1.08x |
| Off all-time high | -99.08% | -98.7% |
| To recover the high | 108.7x | 76.9x |
| Total value locked | $800.0K | $1.2M |
| Network | Qtum | 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
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
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 QTUM or ZIL the better investment?
- On this framework ZIL scores higher: 63 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 QTUM still wins 3 of the 25 individual variables against ZIL.
- What is the biggest difference between QTUM 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, QTUM or ZIL?
- QTUM is valued at $97.7M 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.