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Token Economics Calculator Calculator

Resolve ICO inflation models. Precise engine for evaluating vesting schedules, hard caps, and fully diluted market capitalization (FDV).

Problem Parameters
Initial Coin Offering (ICO) Launch
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Token Distribution Matrix

Specify the percentage of the Max Supply allocated at Launch (TGE).

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Current Circulating Mkt Cap: $ 7,500,000
Future Inflation Danger: + 85% Locked
Insider Centralization Control: 45% Supply
Fully Diluted Market Cap (FDV): $ 50,000,000
HIGH INFLATION RISK: The massive valuation disconnect between Retail Circulating supply and Insider Locked supply guarantees violent future price depreciation when VC vesting ends.
Solution
Fully Diluted Valuation (FDV)
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Supply Hard Cap
Dilution
Vesting Physics
Comprehensive Guide

Tokenomics: The Danger of FDV

Learn the principles of Circulating Supply vs Total Supply, Token Generation Events (TGE), and why VC unlocking schedules frequently manipulate retail investors.

What is FDV?

When evaluating a cryptocurrency, retail investors mistakenly only look at the Circulating Market Cap. If calculating $15 Million tokens × $0.50$ = $7.5 Million, it seems like a safe small-cap investment with room to grow. However, the true metric is the Fully Diluted Valuation (FDV), which calculates the price against the maximum total tokens that will ever technically exist.

The Vesting Trap

In shady tokenomics, developers will launch a coin but intentionally lock `85%` of the supply in a vault. This artificially starves the market, causing a supply-shock that pumps the price of the circulating `15%` to massive retail hype values.

However, exactly 1 year later (the cliff), the smart contract automatically automatically unlocks the `85%` reserves directly into the Venture Capitalist and Founder wallets. The VCs immediately market-dump them on retail, instantly hyper-inflating the supply by 500% and mathematically crushing the price to near zero.

Centralization Warning

Bitcoin's value stems from arguably fair distribution—nobody pre-mined it. In modern ICOs, if the Team Allocation combined with the Private VC Allocation formally exceeds `30%`, the token is effectively centrally manipulated. They act as whales, entirely capable of coordinating massive dump events to exit liquidity against retail buyers.