Market cap

Price times circulating supply - and why a fake one is the oldest trick in the book.

What it means

Market cap is a token's price multiplied by its circulating supply. It is meant to tell you how big a project really is. Fully diluted valuation (FDV) runs the same maths on the total supply, including tokens that have not been released yet.

Why it matters for scams

A token can show a multi-million dollar market cap while only a few hundred dollars of real liquidity sit in the pool. Scammers mint a huge supply, seed a tiny amount of ETH, and let the headline number do the marketing. The cap is a price label, not money you can actually withdraw.

How RektRadar helps

RektRadar always reads the market cap against the real on-chain liquidity and supply distribution, so a token with a big cap but a thin pool or a huge unreleased supply gets flagged instead of celebrated.

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