Arithmetic on today's supply, not a forecast. It assumes nothing about whether Chainlink could attract that much money.
A coin's market capitalisation is its price multiplied by the number of coins in circulation. Chainlink has 745,131,092 LINK in circulation at $11.5390 each, which is $8.6B. Holding that supply still and putting Bitcoin Cash's $4.53B in its place gives $6.0813 per LINK.
Chainlink is already worth more than Bitcoin Cash. Moving to the smaller cap would take LINK down to $6.0813, which is 0.527x of what it trades at now.
Supply is held still, and in practice it moves: coins are minted, burned and unlocked, and every one of those changes the price a given market capitalisation implies. The figure also says nothing about whether the money exists to buy LINK at that level, which is the part that actually decides a price.
$6.0813 per LINK. That is Bitcoin Cash's current market capitalisation of $4.53B divided across the 745,131,092 LINK in circulation.
0.527x. Chainlink trades at $11.5390 today and Bitcoin Cash's market cap is $4.53B against Chainlink's $8.6B.
No. It is one division: Bitcoin Cash's market capitalisation spread over the supply of LINK that exists today. It assumes nothing about whether Chainlink could attract that much money, and it holds the supply still when in practice supply changes.
It sets it. Market cap is price times circulating supply, so the same $4.53B of market cap spread over more coins gives a lower price per coin. This uses the 745,131,092 LINK in circulation now.