One pull of the live board, 118 coins, every printed cap set against the pool behind it. The three biggest caps on the board all sit on pools worth under 3 percent of them. A 151 million dollar claim with about 1 million in the pot. The cap is what the coin says it is worth. The pool is what is actually in the till.
Two numbers, very different jobs. The market cap is supply times the last trade price. It assumes every token could be sold at that last price. The pool is the pair of balances, dollars and coins, that stand ready to trade against each other. Real exits run through the pool, not the cap. When the pool is small next to the cap, most of that printed value has no cash behind it.
Here are the three, straight from this morning’s pull.
| Coin | Market cap | Pool | Pool as share of cap | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AOTF (American Oil Trust Fund) | $150,920,771 | $1,010,205 | 0.7% | E |
| UODF (United Oil Dividend Fund) | $44,970,519 | $551,695 | 1.2% | E |
| NAFF (National American Future Fund) | $9,433,898 | $252,896 | 2.7% | E |
Those three are also the only coins in the pull with pools under 10 percent of their caps. All three graded E, and all three carry the same stated reason, word for word from the grader: the pool is only that percent “of what the coin is worth.” The cap did not earn any of them a better letter. The book did the talking.
The pattern does not stop at the top. Split the pull by size and the ladder runs one direction.
| Cap size | Coins | Median pool as share of cap |
|---|---|---|
| $1 million and up | 3 | 1.2% (range 0.7% to 2.7%) |
| $100K to $1 million | 7 | 21.4% |
| Under $100K | 108 | 195% |
Read the last row twice. The typical small coin on the board has a pool worth roughly double its cap. The typical large cap has a pool worth one or two cents on the dollar. The bigger the printed number, the smaller the share of it that exists as tradeable cash. We measured the gap at one moment in time. This pull says nothing about why each pool is thin, only that every large cap in it was.
For contrast, the same pull held books you can see straight through. XMR: a $25,808 cap on a $24,865 pool, 96 percent. APOGEE: $11,525 on $11,923, 104 percent, grade A. BTC on the board, not the Bitcoin: $16,247 on $16,078, 99 percent. Whatever else is wrong with a coin, those books are honest about their size.
What does a 9 million dollar cap on a 253 thousand dollar pool mean for someone reading it? It means the number being quoted is about 37 times the number that can be paid out, and even that is generous. Real sales push the price down as they happen, so any exit big enough to matter realizes less than the pool figure, not more. An exit is a claim on the till, and the till is printed second. When a listing leads with the cap and stays quiet about the pool, the loud number is the one with the least behind it.
The board at firememecoins.com prints cap and pool on every card, side by side, no scrolling for the second number. Pumpcheck runs the same comparison on any coin on the board, the pool’s share of the cap along with the letter it earns. We wrote earlier about where tracked launches stop growing. This is the other half of that story: past the stall band, the caps that do print big are the ones most likely to be standing on almost nothing.
Method: one snapshot, taken Saturday morning, October 31, 2026, from the board’s two live views: 100 graduated coins and 18 in the graduating view, 118 coins total, all 118 printing both a market cap and a pool balance. The top row of the size ladder holds three coins, so read that line as three cases, not a census. The buckets below it hold 7 and 108. Caps and pools both move minute to minute; these shares were true at pull time, and thin pools can refill as fast as they drained. We measured balances, not trader outcomes, and nothing here says whether any of these coins goes up or down next. It says what stood behind the numbers, and how little it was.
