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Valuation
A share is an enforceable claim on audited cash flows; a token usually is not, and that single difference reshapes every ratio built on it.
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90 minreading in all
Working knowledgewhere it starts
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Lessons in this track
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Why valuing a digital asset is harder than valuing a companyA share is an enforceable claim on audited cash flows; a token usually is not, and that single difference reshapes every ratio built on it.
7 min · Working knowledge
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Market cap to annualized fees, worked through step by stepThe arithmetic takes one line; the choices hidden inside it are where two careful analysts end up with different numbers for the same network.
8 min · Working knowledge
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Market cap to protocol revenue, and what revenue means hereNarrowing the denominator from all fees to protocol revenue sharpens the ratio and imports a classification call no standard-setter has ever ruled on.
8 min · Advanced
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The fully diluted ratios, and when they are the more honest onesFully diluted valuation counts tokens that do not exist yet, which makes it either the most misleading number on a page or the only realistic one.
8 min · Advanced
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Market cap to value locked, and what TVL actually countsTotal value locked measures deposits a protocol holds but does not own, priced in assets that move, which shapes how the ratio can be read.
7 min · Working knowledge
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Market cap per active address, and why an address is not a personDividing market cap by active addresses gives a value-per-user figure whose denominator counts neither values nor users reliably.
6 min · Working knowledge
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NVT and settled-value ratios, and how they are known to failNetwork value to transactions was built as an earnings-multiple analogue for chains; its denominator measures ledger movement rather than economic use.
8 min · Advanced
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Fee yield, revenue yield and holder-revenue yield are not incomeThese three figures invert the valuation ratios into percentages that look like yields, and none of them describes cash arriving in anyone's account.
8 min · Advanced
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The limits of every valuation ratio on this siteOne page collecting the failure modes shared by all of them, so no ratio here gets read as a statement about what an asset is worth.
8 min · Advanced
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How to build a comparison set that is not nonsenseA peer group only means something when fee mechanism, accounting boundary, supply definition and measurement window are held constant across it.
8 min · Advanced
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What to look at when every valuation ratio is meaninglessSome assets generate no fee stream at all, which makes every ratio in this track undefined rather than merely unreliable.
7 min · Working knowledge
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A measurement and a judgement are different thingsEverything in this track produces measurements; a view about worth is a judgement, and keeping the two apart is what the whole method depends on.
7 min · Working knowledge
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DeFi
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How networks work
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Institutional access and regulation
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Market structure
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Protocol economics
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Risk
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Stablecoins and payments
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Start here
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Supply and issuance
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