A pool sets a price, not a market cap, and the price on BSC opened at Solana’s price. Market cap is price × supply, and the real supply is one number (1 billion) no matter which chain you look at. Why 50/50: to open a pool at a given price you need equal value on both sides. We put in 1.108 BNB and 8.86M tokens, which is the ratio the fund paid on Solana (8.19 SOL bought those tokens, 7.7 SOL became that BNB). So the opening price per token on BSC was the fund’s own fill price on Solana, a few percent under the Solana spot only because an 8 SOL buy moves a thin PumpSwap pool. The “50/50” is not half the market cap, it is just how any pool is seeded. Why trackers show $855: they multiply price × the supply that exists on BSC, and only the 8.86M bridged tokens exist there. The true market cap at that price is about $95k, the same on both chains. Can the price differ per chain? Only briefly. NTT bridging is permissionless and 1:1, so if BSC trades higher, anyone buys on Solana, locks, mints on BSC and sells; if lower, the reverse. Bots started doing exactly that within a minute of the pool opening. What does stay different is depth: the BSC pool is about $1.7k deep versus about $10k on Solana, so a trade moves BSC more. The top-ups from fees close that gap over time.