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What is a crypto market cap & how does it work?

It applies to crypto traders too — if you agree, we've prepared a chart that will let you see the whole crypto market from a bird's-eye view. It shows total crypto market cap, which is calculated by TradingView by adding up top 125 coins market caps, which, in their turn, are the number of coins times their current price.

How does CoinMarketCap rank cryptoassets?

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.

Does BCH have a crypto market cap?

But in actual fact, BCH has a crypto market cap that's a third smaller. Circulating supply — which looks at the number of coins available to the public — isn't the only method for calculating a crypto market cap. Alternatives include calculating the total supply (factoring in assets that might be locked up or reserved). Another is maximum supply.

Should you count bitcoin's share in the crypto market?

Since Bitcoin presents such a huge piece of the crypto pie, excluding it from counting sounds reasonable and lets you see a more clear picture of where the crypto market is moving at the moment. That is what you can see on the chart we've prepared — calculated by TradingView, it displays global crypto market cap without Bitcoin's share.

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