Total Supply
The amount of a coin or token that currently exists, including circulating, locked, reserved, and escrowed units.
Total supply is the number of units that have been created and have not been verifiably destroyed. It usually includes circulating tokens plus locked, vested, treasury, escrowed, or otherwise non-circulating allocations.
Total supply differs from circulating supply, which estimates what is freely available to the market, and maximum supply, which is the highest amount that can ever exist if the protocol has a cap.
Verifying total supply can require reading contract code, checking mint and burn events, reviewing bridge reserves, or relying on issuer attestations. Bridged and wrapped assets are especially prone to double-counting if both original and wrapped units are added together.
Related terms
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Circulating Supply
→The estimated number of coins or tokens currently available to the market, excluding locked or unissued supply.
Maximum Supply
→The predetermined total number of a cryptocurrency that will ever exist, enforced by the protocol's rules.
Tokenomics
→The economic design of a token, including supply, issuance, distribution, utility, incentives, and unlocks.
Market Cap
→Market cap estimates a cryptocurrency's total circulating value by multiplying price by circulating supply.
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