What Is Total Supply?
Definition
Total supply is all tokens that currently exist — minted minus burned. Set during creation and permanently lockable by revoking mint authority.
Supply math: market cap = total supply × price. If mint authority is revoked, total supply = max supply permanently.
- 1M-10M — scarce, higher per-token price. Governance tokens.
- 100M-1B — moderate. Utility and DeFi tokens.
- 1B-1T — large, very low per-token price. Memecoins.
On CoinDevTools, you set supply during creation. All tokens mint to your wallet in one transaction. Revoking mint authority locks it permanently. Burning reduces it (deflationary).
Related Terms
Tokenomics
Tokenomics is the economic design of a cryptocurrency token — covering supply, distribution, utility, incentive mechanisms, and how these factors affect the token's value over time.
Token Supply (Total, Circulating, Max)
Token supply refers to how many tokens exist: total supply is all tokens ever created, circulating supply is tokens in public wallets, and max supply is the hard cap that can ever exist.
Mint Authority
The mint authority is the wallet address authorized to create new tokens for an SPL token on Solana. Revoking it permanently locks the token supply.
Market Cap (Market Capitalization)
Market cap is the total value of all tokens in circulation, calculated as token price multiplied by circulating supply. It's the primary metric for comparing token sizes.