STRK vs ZK
Starknet 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
STRK scores 93 of 250 and ranks 177th of 251. ZK scores 95 and ranks 167th. ZK leads by 2 points, which is inside the range where the individual variables matter more than the total. STRK takes 2 of the 25 variables, ZK takes 4, and 19 are level.
No single variable separates STRK 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 7 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.
ZK still has 48.5% of its eventual supply to enter circulation against 25.8% for STRK. On the same market capitalisation, a buyer of ZK is taking the 1.94x dilution path and a buyer of STRK the 1.35x one.
STRK is valued at $366.4M against $129.1M for ZK, a 2.8x 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 | 2 | 3 | ZK +1 | |
| 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 | 1 | 1 | level | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 2 | 2 | level | |
| Buyback and Burn | 1 | 2 | ZK +1 |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Insider Selling | 2 | 3 | ZK +1 | |
| Holder Concentration | 2 | 3 | ZK +1 |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Active Users | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Developer Activity | 6 | 5 | STRK +1 | |
| Network Growth | 4 | 4 | level |
Position
| Market Share | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Competitive Moat | 6 | 5 | STRK +1 | |
| 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 | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Team Execution | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Treasury Runway | 6 | 6 | level |
Bars read outward from the centre: STRK 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
| STRK | ZK | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.0494 | $0.0119 |
| Market cap | $366.4M | $129.1M |
| Circulating | 74.2% | 51.5% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1.35x | 1.94x |
| Off all-time high | -98.9% | -96.3% |
| To recover the high | 90.9x | 27x |
| Total value locked | $70.0M | $95.0M |
| Network | Starknet | zkSync |
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
STRK · PASS
Starknet v0.13+ performance upgrades reducing fees; Cairo language adoption for AI and gaming use cases
Only 20% circulating; StarkWare holds massive allocation being released; TVL and activity near zero relative to potential
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 STRK or ZK the better investment?
- On this framework ZK scores higher: 95 against 93 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 STRK still wins 2 of the 25 individual variables against ZK.
- What is the biggest difference between STRK 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, STRK or ZK?
- STRK is valued at $366.4M 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.