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by davidgerard 1546 days ago
No. "Market cap" of an equity stock is a useful number that tells you something. "Market cap" of a cryptocurrency tells you no useful information about it.

What you care about is liquidity (can be roughly estimated from exchange data) and trade volume (much harder to estimate, in the face of endemic wash trading everywhere in crypto) - you care about movement of the asset and the movement of the money for it.