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    Calculation method

    How MoonMath calculates whale dump

    Whale Dump Impact CalculatorWhat happens if a top holder sells?

    The formula

    The tokens sold are the holding times the share dumped; that amount is executed as a single constant-product sale against one validated pool. Execution loss is the shortfall of the proceeds against the same tokens marked at the pre-trade price.

    What it reads

    • The holder's balance and the share of it assumed sold
    • The current token price, for marking the position
    • One observed pool with executable reserves
    • The pool fee, and daily volume for the comparison

    What it assumes

    • The whole amount executes as one instantaneous sale into one selected pool
    • The pool must pass the constant-product guard: concentrated-liquidity and reserve-less pools are refused rather than approximated
    • No other trade happens during the sale, and no routing across the token's other venues is attempted
    • The share sold is a scenario the reader supplies, not an observation of the holder's intent

    What this does not establish

    • It does not establish that the holder will sell, or when — the share is an assumption
    • The volume comparison is a comparison, not a recovery forecast
    • It does not model other sellers reacting, or the order in which trades land
    • The price after is the selected pool's spot price, not a market-wide price

    Run it

    Estimate what a large holder sale could execute for against an observed constant-product AMM pool. The calculator separates a wallet's marked value from the proceeds the pool could actually return.

    Open the Whale Dump calculator

    How the market itself works

    This page describes MoonMath's arithmetic. The mechanics section describes the market: how an order book forms a price, why order-book depth is not the same thing as pool liquidity, and what a public book does and does not let you observe.

    Read the market mechanics