There is an interesting phenomenon worth paying attention to — a certain mainstream token has a total circulating supply of only 80,000 coins, and based on the current market price, its full circulation market cap is only in the tens of millions level. There is a question here that needs to be considered: if we look back at its history, when the whales pushed the price above seven thousand dollars, the entire market cap was only a few billion.
From this perspective, reverse deduction becomes very interesting — what is the logic behind such operations? If it ends just like that, it’s hard to explain. Either it’s purely to liquidate early holders, or there are other considerations behind it.
Traditional whale strategies are usually like this: accumulate chips → drive up the price → sell off and exit. But now the problem is, from the historical high to now, if there is no subsequent major market movement, the overall profit from such operations is limited.
In this situation, the market generally has two possibilities: either market sentiment is still in the incubation stage, waiting for new catalysts; or participants have divergent expectations for the future market. For small-scale participants, understanding this logic is actually more important than blindly following the trend.
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MidnightSeller
· 12h ago
80,000 tokens in circulation... This number is a bit outrageous, feels like it could be crushed at any moment.
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BankruptcyArtist
· 12h ago
Wow, 80,000 tokens from 7,000 to now, the dealer's move is just outrageous.
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gas_fee_therapist
· 12h ago
Thinking about this logic the other way around is ridiculous. A market cap of tens of millions can be pushed to $7,000? Honestly, it's still about waiting for a new story.
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BrokenDAO
· 12h ago
80,000 circulating tokens, sounds like a carefully crafted scarcity narrative... but this chip structure itself exposes the problem.
The collapse of the market maker logic boils down to two scenarios—either the initial short squeeze was never truly completed, or they are waiting for a "follow-up market" that will never come. Anyway, I've seen too many projects like this, and in the end, they all become cautionary tales against governance inertia.
A market cap of tens of millions pulling over seven thousand dollars? This kind of incentive distortion is typical—it's just a blood-letting cycle... Unless new funds enter the market, the early holders' gains are essentially taken from later entrants' pockets.
It seems this article aims to discuss rational analysis, but overlooks one point—within this system, information asymmetry is a feature, not a bug. The smarter small participants are, the more they lose.
There is an interesting phenomenon worth paying attention to — a certain mainstream token has a total circulating supply of only 80,000 coins, and based on the current market price, its full circulation market cap is only in the tens of millions level. There is a question here that needs to be considered: if we look back at its history, when the whales pushed the price above seven thousand dollars, the entire market cap was only a few billion.
From this perspective, reverse deduction becomes very interesting — what is the logic behind such operations? If it ends just like that, it’s hard to explain. Either it’s purely to liquidate early holders, or there are other considerations behind it.
Traditional whale strategies are usually like this: accumulate chips → drive up the price → sell off and exit. But now the problem is, from the historical high to now, if there is no subsequent major market movement, the overall profit from such operations is limited.
In this situation, the market generally has two possibilities: either market sentiment is still in the incubation stage, waiting for new catalysts; or participants have divergent expectations for the future market. For small-scale participants, understanding this logic is actually more important than blindly following the trend.