Plain English
Market cap (market capitalization) is the total dollar value of all circulating units of a cryptocurrency. The formula is simple: current price multiplied by circulating supply.
How it actually works
If Bitcoin trades at $70,000 and 19.7 million coins are in circulation, the market cap is approximately $1.38 trillion. The figure is useful for relative comparisons — size of one asset versus another, share of total crypto market, etc. It is not a measure of how much money is in the asset; small amounts of trading can move a thinly-traded asset’s market cap by billions.
What it means for you
For members, market cap is the structural lens for risk and liquidity. Top-10 market-cap assets have deeper liquidity, more institutional adoption, more structural support. Tokens with $10M market caps can be moved 50% by a single wallet’s buying or selling.
We use market cap as one input into position-sizing discipline. Members do not size positions in micro-cap tokens the way they size positions in Bitcoin — the structural risk is fundamentally different.
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