Arithmetic on today's supply, not a forecast. It assumes nothing about whether NEAR Protocol could attract that much money.
A coin's market capitalisation is its price multiplied by the number of coins in circulation. NEAR Protocol has 1,314,586,583 NEAR in circulation at $2.3320 each, which is $3.07B. Holding that supply still and putting Chainlink's $8.64B in its place gives $6.5687 per NEAR.
A 2.82x move is modest, and a coin this far down the table reaching the one above it is the ordinary shape of a cycle, not an outlier.
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 NEAR at that level, which is the part that actually decides a price.
$6.5687 per NEAR. That is Chainlink's current market capitalisation of $8.64B divided across the 1,314,586,583 NEAR in circulation.
2.82x. NEAR Protocol trades at $2.3320 today and Chainlink's market cap is $8.64B against NEAR Protocol's $3.07B.
No. It is one division: Chainlink's market capitalisation spread over the supply of NEAR that exists today. It assumes nothing about whether NEAR Protocol 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 $8.64B of market cap spread over more coins gives a lower price per coin. This uses the 1,314,586,583 NEAR in circulation now.