XLM vs YGG
Stellar and Yield Guild Games 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
XLM scores 108 of 250 and ranks 100th of 251. YGG scores 95 and ranks 167th. XLM leads by 13 points, which is a real gap, though small enough that one variable moving would close much of it. XLM takes 12 of the 25 variables, YGG takes 0, and 13 are level.
The framework rates XLM WATCH and YGG 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 XLM and YGG 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, Real Staking Yield, 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 10% for YGG. On the same market capitalisation, a buyer of XLM is taking the 1.43x dilution path and a buyer of YGG the 1.11x one.
XLM is valued at $7.01B against $22.5M for YGG, a 311.8x difference. The larger of the two also scores higher, so the market and the framework agree on the ordering here.
YGG trades 99.78% below its all-time high and XLM 77.1% below its own. Recovering the high needs 454.5x from YGG 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 | 2 | XLM +1 | |
| Revenue Trend | 3 | 3 | level | |
| P/S Multiple | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Real Staking Yield | 3 | 2 | XLM +1 |
Supply
| Supply Inflation | 5 | 4 | XLM +1 | |
| Vesting Schedule | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Circulating / FDV Ratio | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Buyback and Burn | 3 | 2 | XLM +1 |
Ownership
| Smart Money Flows | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Insider Selling | 5 | 5 | level | |
| Holder Concentration | 4 | 4 | level |
Traction
| TVL Trend | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Active Users | 4 | 3 | XLM +1 | |
| Developer Activity | 5 | 4 | XLM +1 | |
| Network Growth | 4 | 4 | level |
Position
| Market Share | 4 | 4 | level | |
| Competitive Moat | 5 | 4 | XLM +1 | |
| Institutional Adoption | 5 | 3 | XLM +2 | |
| Exchange Depth | 6 | 5 | XLM +1 | |
| Social Mindshare | 4 | 4 | level |
Risk
| Regulatory Safety | 6 | 5 | XLM +1 | |
| Catalyst Calendar | 4 | 4 | level | |
| BTC Alpha Potential | 3 | 3 | level | |
| Team Execution | 5 | 4 | XLM +1 | |
| Treasury Runway | 6 | 5 | XLM +1 |
Bars read outward from the centre: XLM to the left, YGG 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
| XLM | YGG | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.2001 | $0.0250 |
| Market cap | $7.01B | $22.5M |
| Circulating | 70.1% | 90% |
| Dilution to full supply | 1.43x | 1.11x |
| Off all-time high | -77.1% | -99.78% |
| To recover the high | 4.4x | 454.5x |
| Total value locked | not published | not published |
| Network | Stellar | 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
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.
YGG · PASS
Guild treasury growth and Web3 gaming adoption via scholarship model
Dependence on game token prices and play-to-earn sustainability
Common questions
- Is XLM or YGG the better investment?
- On this framework XLM scores higher: 108 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 XLM still wins 12 of the 25 individual variables against YGG.
- What is the biggest difference between XLM and YGG?
- 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, XLM or YGG?
- XLM is valued at $7.01B and YGG at $22.5M 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.