VET vs XLM
VeChain 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
VET scores 101 of 250 and ranks 135th of 251. XLM scores 108 and ranks 100th. XLM leads by 7 points, which is inside the range where the individual variables matter more than the total. VET takes 4 of the 25 variables, XLM takes 11, and 10 are level.
No single variable separates VET 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, Revenue Trend, Buyback and Burn, TVL Trend, 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.
XLM still has 29.9% of its eventual supply to enter circulation against 0.8% for VET. On the same market capitalisation, a buyer of XLM is taking the 1.43x dilution path and a buyer of VET the 1.01x one.
XLM is valued at $7.01B against $692.4M for VET, a 10.1x difference. The larger of the two also scores higher, so the market and the framework agree on the ordering here.
VET trades 97.1% below its all-time high and XLM 77.1% below its own. Recovering the high needs 34.5x from VET and 4.4x from XLM, 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 | 3 | 3 | level | |
| P/S Multiple | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Real Staking Yield | 4 | 3 | VET +1 |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Vesting Schedule | 6 | 5 | VET +1 | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 6 | 5 | VET +1 | |
| Buyback and Burn | 3 | 3 | level |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 3 | 4 | XLM +1 | |
| Insider Selling | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Holder Concentration | 4 | 4 | level |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 2 | 3 | XLM +1 | |
| Active Users | 3 | 4 | XLM +1 | |
| Developer Activity | 4 | 5 | XLM +1 | |
| Network Growth | 3 | 4 | XLM +1 |
Position
| Market Share | 3 | 4 | XLM +1 | |
| Competitive Moat | 4 | 5 | XLM +1 | |
| Institutional Adoption | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Exchange Depth | 6 | 6 | level | |
| Social Mindshare | 3 | 4 | XLM +1 |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 7 | 6 | VET +1 | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 3 | 4 | XLM +1 | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 2 | 3 | XLM +1 | |
| Team Execution | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Treasury Runway | 5 | 6 | XLM +1 |
Bars read outward from the centre: VET 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
| VET | XLM | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.008050 | $0.2001 |
| Market cap | $692.4M | $7.01B |
| Circulating | 99.2% | 70.1% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1.01x | 1.43x |
| Off all-time high | -97.1% | -77.1% |
| To recover the high | 34.5x | 4.4x |
| Total value locked | $8.0M | not published |
| Network | VeChain | 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
VET · WATCH
VeChain Thor VIP-220 fee model and Walmart China + DNV GL partnerships provide steady enterprise demand
Enterprise blockchain market shrinking vs. private chains; dual token (VET+VTHO) model adds complexity with minimal speculative upside
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 VET or XLM the better investment?
- On this framework XLM scores higher: 108 against 101 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 VET still wins 4 of the 25 individual variables against XLM.
- What is the biggest difference between VET 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, VET or XLM?
- VET is valued at $692.4M 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.