Total supplyTotal supply refers to the total number of coins or tokens that exist, including circulating supply and those that have... Read More refers to the number of coinsA digital currency in which transactions are verified and records maintained by a decentralized system using cryptography, rather than by... or tokens that currently exist and are either in circulation or locked somehow. It is the sum of coins that were already minedA blockchain is a distributed database that is shared among the nodes of a computer network. Read More (or issued) minus the total of coins that were burned or destroyed.
Therefore, the total supply includes both the circulating supplyCirculating supply is the supply that is currently in the hands of the general public. In the case of fairly... Read More and the coins that are yet to hit the open market. For instance, coins that are being held under a lockup or vesting period, which typically follows a private sale or Initial Coin Offering (ICO)An Initial Coin Offering (or ICO) is a method for teams to raise funds for a project in the cryptocurrency... Read More event. Coins or tokens that are eventually burned are excluded from the total supply.
