# Chain coverage

> The number of chains where a token has meaningful circulating supply. Broad coverage helps distribution but fragments liquidity.

A token deployed on twenty chains is not twenty times as liquid — it is one pool of demand split twenty ways, with each deployment carrying its own bridge or issuance risk.

What matters is whether the token is natively issued on your chain or arrives via a bridge, and how deep the local market is.

## Why it matters

Coverage decides whether you can transact where you actually operate, without a bridge in the path.

Also called: chains, deployments.

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Source: usd.net — https://usd.net/glossary/chain-coverage

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