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Put up to four markets on the same ruler. The shapes do most of the explaining.

Market 1 Market 2 Market 3 Market 4

Private company shares 56 Tough Almost no way out and deep information asymmetry — an asset where the paperwork decides whether you receive anything at all.
Non-fungible tokens 63 Extreme Every risk axis at or near its maximum and liquidity near the floor: the fingerprint of a market that has already happened.

	Private company shares	Non-fungible tokens
Exit difficulty	5	5
Volatility	4	5
Leverage	1	1
Carry cost	1	2
Fraud risk	4	5
Protection gap	4	5
Barrier to entry	2	1
Expertise needed	5	4
Difficulty	56 Tough	63 Extreme
In a sentence	Ownership in businesses with no market, where the price is whatever the last funding round said it was until somebody proves otherwise.	A blockchain record pointing at something, sold as ownership of it — a market that peaked at billions and lost most of its value within two years.
Unit	One share, subject to the articles of association	One token
Smallest realistic trade	Whatever the company and its existing shareholders permit	Gas fees plus the price
Settlement	By stock transfer form and board approval, over weeks	On-chain, immediate and irreversible

The fingerprint measures how demanding a market is to take part in. It is not a rating or a recommendation.