RUNE vs YFI
THORChain and Yearn Finance 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
RUNE scores 106 of 250 and ranks 110th of 251. YFI scores 111 and ranks 91st. YFI leads by 5 points, which is inside the range where the individual variables matter more than the total. RUNE takes 10 of the 25 variables, YFI takes 12, and 3 are level.
The framework rates RUNE PASS and YFI 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.
One variable separates them by 3 points or more. YFI is clear on Regulatory Safety (6 against 1).
Both score 3 or below on Revenue Trend, TVL Trend, Active Users, Institutional Adoption, BTC Alpha Potential. 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.
RUNE is valued at $234.5M against $86.4M for YFI, a 2.7x 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 | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Revenue Trend | 3 | 3 | level | |
| P/S Multiple | 4 | 3 | RUNE +1 | |
| Real Staking Yield | 5 | 4 | RUNE +1 |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 7 | 9 | YFI +2 | |
| Vesting Schedule | 8 | 9 | YFI +1 | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 8 | 9 | YFI +1 | |
| Buyback and Burn | 4 | 5 | YFI +1 |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 3 | 4 | YFI +1 | |
| Insider Selling | 6 | 5 | RUNE +1 | |
| Holder Concentration | 5 | 4 | RUNE +1 |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 2 | 3 | YFI +1 | |
| Active Users | 2 | 3 | YFI +1 | |
| Developer Activity | 5 | 4 | RUNE +1 | |
| Network Growth | 4 | 3 | RUNE +1 |
Position
| Market Share | 5 | 3 | RUNE +2 | |
| Competitive Moat | 6 | 4 | RUNE +2 | |
| Institutional Adoption | 1 | 3 | YFI +2 | |
| Exchange Depth | 4 | 5 | YFI +1 | |
| Social Mindshare | 4 | 3 | RUNE +1 |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 1 | 6 | YFI +5 | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 5 | 3 | RUNE +2 | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 2 | 3 | YFI +1 | |
| Team Execution | 3 | 4 | YFI +1 | |
| Treasury Runway | 4 | 4 | level |
Bars read outward from the centre: RUNE to the left, YFI 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
| RUNE | YFI | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.7137 | $2,395 |
| Market cap | $234.5M | $86.4M |
| Circulating | 92.8% | 98.4% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1.08x | 1.02x |
| Off all-time high | -96.6% | -97.4% |
| To recover the high | 29.4x | 38.5x |
| Total value locked | $380.0M | $400.0M |
| Network | THORChain | Ethereum |
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
RUNE · PASS
V3.19 restart + Monero integration + Rujira app layer + Solana volume corridor
OFAC sanction risk from $1.2B Lazarus laundering. Third exploit = terminal. $200M lawsuit pending. TCY 10% revenue tax.
YFI · WATCH
Yearn V3 vaults with pluggable strategies and yETH staking product
TVL in secular decline; protocol revenue fell 70%+ in 2024; no new growth narrative
Common questions
- Is RUNE or YFI the better investment?
- On this framework YFI scores higher: 111 against 106 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 RUNE still wins 10 of the 25 individual variables against YFI.
- What is the biggest difference between RUNE and YFI?
- Regulatory Safety. RUNE scores 1 of 10 there and YFI scores 6, a gap of 5 points on a single variable.
- Which is bigger, RUNE or YFI?
- RUNE is valued at $234.5M and YFI at $86.4M 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.