Season 1
EP07-02 - How Low Float and High FDV Work
A price set by nobody, sold to everybody
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18% fixed yield! Paid daily! Backed by real AI revenue!
buy! buy! buy! buy!
And that… was about to be the biggest mistake of her life.
"Float" means the actual number of tokens available to buy and sell in the market.
Imagine a project mints 1 billion tokens—but only 5% (50 million) are released for public trading at launch.
The game: With such a low supply, it’s dangerously easy to inflate the price fast.
Just a few million dollars from retail buyers and the price blasts from 1.00 to10.00—because almost no one can sell.
This pumps up the Fully Diluted Valuation to absurd heights. For that price to be real, the project needs to grow twentyfold — just to stand still.
Wait. So where is the other 95%?
Upstairs. Founders, insiders, KOLs, treasury. Locked for six to twelve months.
And every lock opens on a schedule. They open when the hype is loudest.
Let’s say 500 million reward tokens get released slowly over 1,000 days...
What it is worth today. What it claims to be worth.
...that's not a gap, that's a cliff.
Low float, sky-high FDV, endless emissions — the ultimate wealth-transfer engine dressed up as DeFi.
Step one: leak an exciting rumor online.
Step two: flood social media with synchronized hype—paid shillers posting in perfect unison.
Money goes into a circlejerk, creating impression of volume
Step four: Anon and shillers spam screenshots showing ‘top trending’—makes retail believe they’re missing out.
Insiders opens "entry opportunity", only "lucky ones" get in.
A thin float needs almost nothing to move.
Tenfold. On a million dollars of real buying.
Wow, we’re in early! Only $400M market cap!
You’re not early. You’re the exit liquidity
All I have to do is stake and wait. Easy money!
Three months in. LOL, you're speaking to a yield farming genius. Stay poor, peasants!
...it's fine. It's fine. It always dips around month six.
LET ME OUT—LET ME OUUUT!!
Congrats on your 18% APY. That’s 1,800 more tokens— But dilution nuked9,100 in real value. Net: You paid $8,200 for them to drain you.