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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Cryptocurrency market capitalization is a simple, straightforward way of finding out how big a digital currency is — and it can help you make smarter investment decisions.Cryptocurrency market capitalization is a simple, straightforward way of finding out how big a digital currency is — and it can help you make smarter investment decisions. In fact, CoinMarketCap first popularized looking at a coin’s market cap for ranking cryptoassets way back when.Figuring out a crypto market cap is easy. All you need to do is multiply a coin's current price by the total number in circulation.Let's imagine that an altcoin is currently worth $100, and it has a circulating supply of 25 million. Multiplying the two tells us what the crypto market cap is — in this case, $2.5 billion.(An aside that while in theory, it is easy to do these multiplications, things become much harder with different types of coins issuance, etc. — for example, crypto Twitter blew up in August 2020 when people realized they couldn’t calculate the same total Ethereum supply twice).The total market cap takes in market data from a range of cryptocurrencies — including Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and EOS — to provide a fuller, real-time picture of how the cryptoasset sector is performing. Here at CoinMarketCap, we do all the hard work for you, and also offer details about trading volumes in a 24-hour period.Another important metric to keep an eye on, especially with altcoins, is the total supply. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have limits on their circulating
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