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Market Cap vs FDV

Also known as: Circulating vs fully diluted
Difficulty: intro
Market cap uses circulating supply; FDV uses total/fully diluted supply.
Formula
Market cap = price × circulating supply

Circulating market cap uses only tokens that can trade freely today. FDV assumes the full diluted supply trades at the same price.

A wide FDV-market-cap gap usually means large unlocks, team/investor cliffs, or emissions ahead. That gap is informative for float risk; it is not evidence of mispricing by itself.

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