<p>Imagine you have $100, and it exchanges hands 10 times in 1 day. That means in a single day there was $1000 worth of value transfer, even though it was the same $100 moving the whole time. Total Epoch output is the same way. If 1M ADA is transferred 45,000 times in one epoch, thats already 45B ADA total output.</p>
<p>Additionally, <em>change</em> likely makes up the majority of the total output metric. In a UTXO system like Cardano, if I have a single UTXO with 1M ADA in it and I only want to send you 100 ADA, the whole UTXO will be used as an input and two outputs will be created - one to your address for 100 ADA and one back to me as change for 999900 ADA. So even though I only sent you 100ADA, the total output for that Tx would be 1M ADA.</p>

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Very interesting. So the value is a 'summation' of all the UTXO amounts that moved around during that epoch. I guess my thinking was around an account-based ledger.
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<p>Looking at epoch 316 details on CardanoScan (<a href="https://cardanoscan.io/epoch/316" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cardanoscan.io/epoch/316</a>) and I see that the Total Output value has 53 billion ADA.</p>
<p>What does this field mean? How can it be greater than the total supply of ADA which is 45 billion?</p>

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Total Ouput in Cardano
# Total Ouput in Cardano

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-02-01)

Looking at epoch 316 details on CardanoScan (<https://cardanoscan.io/epoch/316>) and I see that the Total Output value has 53 billion ADA.

What does this field mean? How can it be greater than the total supply of ADA which is 45 billion?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2022-02-01. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

Imagine you have $100, and it exchanges hands 10 times in 1 day. That means in a single day there was $1000 worth of value transfer, even though it was the same $100 moving the whole time. Total Epoch output is the same way. If 1M ADA is transferred 45,000 times in one epoch, thats already 45B ADA total output.

Additionally, *change* likely makes up the majority of the total output metric. In a UTXO system like Cardano, if I have a single UTXO with 1M ADA in it and I only want to send you 100 ADA, the whole UTXO will be used as an input and two outputs will be created - one to your address for 100 ADA and one back to me as change for 999900 ADA. So even though I only sent you 100ADA, the total output for that Tx would be 1M ADA.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Very interesting. So the value is a 'summation' of all the UTXO amounts that moved around during that epoch. I guess my thinking was around an account-based ledger.  

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