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 751,275,950 LINK in circulation at $11.3520 each, which is $8.53B. Holding that supply still and putting Sky's $1.5B in its place gives $1.9980 per LINK.
Chainlink is already worth more than Sky. Moving to the smaller cap would take LINK down to $1.9980, which is 0.176x 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.
$1.9980 per LINK. That is Sky's current market capitalisation of $1.5B divided across the 751,275,950 LINK in circulation.
0.176x. Chainlink trades at $11.3520 today and Sky's market cap is $1.5B against Chainlink's $8.53B.
No. It is one division: Sky'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 $1.5B of market cap spread over more coins gives a lower price per coin. This uses the 751,275,950 LINK in circulation now.