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Liquidity, market cap & volume

What is market cap in crypto?

Short answer

Market cap is the token's current price multiplied by its circulating supply. It's a rough size measure, not the amount of money you could actually take out.

If a token trades at $0.001 and there are 1 billion in circulation, its market cap is $1 million. That makes it easy to compare tokens with wildly different prices and supplies.

But market cap is a paper number. It assumes every token could be sold at the last price, which is never true. If the pool behind that $1 million token only holds $50,000, a large sell would crash the price long before anyone got near $1 million out.

That's why market cap should always be read alongside liquidity and volume.

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