Realized Market Cap (USD)
The sum USD value based on the USD closing price on the day that a native unit last moved (i.e., last transacted) for all native units.
Name | MetricID | Category | Subcategory | Type | Unit | Interval |
Realized Market Cap (USD) | CapRealUSD | Market | Market Capitalization | Product | USD | 1 day |
- This metric takes the ledger state of the asset, assigns a date of last movement for each account/unspent output, multiplies the balance of the account/value of the output by the price at the date of last movement and sums all of those numbers for the asset’s ledger.
- The state of the ledger is the one at the last available block for that day.
- Only the native units balance is considered, L2 tokens (ERC-20, etc.) are not taken into account.
- For UTXO chains, last activity is the date of creation of the output.
- For account-based chains, last activity is either the last date the account was the sender of a ledger change, or its time of creation, whichever is more recent.
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- This metric is not available for assets that have full privacy, like Monero, Grin.
- For assets that have opt-in privacy features, like ZCash, it only takes the non-private balances into account. The realized cap is first computed over the non-private balances, then scaled so that ratios like MVRV can be computed: Realized Cap = Non-private realized Cap + Private Supply * (Non-private realized cap/ (Total Current Supply - Private supply)) This can be understood as taking the non-private supply’s price implied by the realized cap (Non-private realized cap / Non private supply) and assigning that price to the private supply.
For an asset whose ledger is:
Account | Balance | Time of last movement | Price at last movement | Realized balance |
A | 100 | 2010-01-01 | $0 | $0 |
B | 1000 | 2016-01-01 | $10 | $10,000 |
C | 500 | 2019-01-01 | $100 | $50,000 |
The realized cap would be $0 + $10,000 + $50,000 = $60,000
For assets like ZEC, assuming there’s 5M native units outstanding, 1M private, 4M non-private. If the realized cap of the non-private supply is $1B, the total realized cap is computed as: $1B * (1M * ($1B / (5M - 1M)) = $1.25B
- Released in the 1.0 release of NDP
Realized capitalization (sometimes referred to as Realized Value) is one of Coin Metrics’ flagship metrics, first introduced in a talk by Nic Carter in 2018. Realized cap aggregates units of supply according to their market price when they last moved on-chain. The original intent was to discount the weight of long-lost coins, in particular in Bitcoin, as a significant fraction of supply is inert and has not moved since 2010 (and can be presumed lost). Additionally, realized cap is a more faithful measure of economic significance for forks with limited uptake, as conventional measures like market cap naively presume that the entire stock of coins is liquid and market-available. Interpretations vary, but realized cap is perhaps best-understood as a metric which captures the average cost basis of all current holders. It has been used to devise popular oscillators and derivative metrics.
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