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Max supply

Also: maximum supply, supply cap

The most coins that will ever exist, if the protocol sets a limit.

Bitcoin’s max supply is 21 million. Some assets, such as ether and dogecoin, have no maximum. A fixed cap doesn’t guarantee value, and an uncapped supply isn’t necessarily inflationary if tokens are also destroyed.

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