SCROLL vs ZK
Scroll and ZKsync 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
SCROLL scores 102 of 250 and ranks 129th of 251. ZK scores 95 and ranks 167th. SCROLL leads by 7 points, which is inside the range where the individual variables matter more than the total. SCROLL takes 7 of the 25 variables, ZK takes 0, and 18 are level.
The framework rates SCROLL WATCH and ZK PASS. 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 SCROLL and ZK 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, Supply Inflation, Vesting Schedule, Circulating / FDV Ratio, Buyback and Burn and 3 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.
SCROLL still has 81% of its eventual supply to enter circulation against 48.5% for ZK. On the same market capitalisation, a buyer of SCROLL is taking the 5.26x dilution path and a buyer of ZK the 1.94x one.
ZK is valued at $129.1M against $4.7M for SCROLL, a 27.4x 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 | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Revenue Trend | 3 | 3 | level | |
| P/S Multiple | 6 | 6 | level | |
| Real Staking Yield | 3 | 3 | level |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 2 | 2 | level | |
| Vesting Schedule | 2 | 1 | SCROLL +1 | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 2 | 2 | level | |
| Buyback and Burn | 2 | 2 | level |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Insider Selling | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Holder Concentration | 3 | 3 | level |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 4 | 3 | SCROLL +1 | |
| Active Users | 4 | 3 | SCROLL +1 | |
| Developer Activity | 6 | 5 | SCROLL +1 | |
| Network Growth | 4 | 4 | level |
Position
| Market Share | 4 | 3 | SCROLL +1 | |
| Competitive Moat | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Institutional Adoption | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Exchange Depth | 7 | 7 | level | |
| Social Mindshare | 4 | 4 | level |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 7 | 7 | level | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 4 | 4 | level | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 4 | 3 | SCROLL +1 | |
| Team Execution | 6 | 5 | SCROLL +1 | |
| Treasury Runway | 6 | 6 | level |
Bars read outward from the centre: SCROLL to the left, ZK 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
| SCROLL | ZK | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.0248 | $0.0119 |
| Market cap | $4.7M | $129.1M |
| Circulating | 19% | 51.5% |
| Dilution to full supply | 5.26x | 1.94x |
| Off all-time high | -98.3% | -96.3% |
| To recover the high | 58.8x | 27x |
| Total value locked | $115.0M | $95.0M |
| Network | Scroll | zkSync |
SCROLL now trades as SCR. The scoring pass ran under the old ticker, so the scores above are filed there while the market figures track the new one.
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
SCROLL · WATCH
ZK proof generation cost reductions enabling Scroll to undercut Arbitrum/Optimism on fees at scale
Only 19% circulating; EVM-equivalence not enough to differentiate; TVL stagnant vs Base which dominates mindshare
ZK · PASS
ZK Stack elastic chain network expansion and ZKsync native account abstraction adoption
Only 17% circulating supply with years of heavy releases ahead; TVL and developer activity abandoned after airdrop controversy
Common questions
- Is SCROLL or ZK the better investment?
- On this framework SCROLL scores higher: 102 against 95 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 SCROLL still wins 7 of the 25 individual variables against ZK.
- What is the biggest difference between SCROLL and ZK?
- 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, SCROLL or ZK?
- SCROLL is valued at $4.7M and ZK at $129.1M 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.