When you look at a token’s price (all down bad now LMEOW), what amount of supply are you valuing?
Token valuations answer that question --> Crypto needed various metrics because tokens don’t behave like equities:
• A normal tokenomics piechart tells you that supply is split across public float, locked allocations, vesting, future emissions, burns
• 2 tokens at “$200m market cap” can have completely different dilution + liquidity realities
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We relied on 2 methods thus far
a) Market Cap (MC)
• Default “ranking” metric where MC = Price × Circulating supply (public float)
• Gives us an id