hard cap
Nonnegotiable spending limit
A hard cap is an absolute limit that cannot be exceeded under any circumstances.
In finance and cryptocurrency, it's the maximum amount a project will raise: The ICO has a hard cap of fifty million dollars.
In gaming, it's an unchangeable ceiling on stats or levels.
In sports salary contexts, a hard cap allows no exceptions, unlike a soft cap which permits certain overages.
The term implies rigidity—once reached, that's it.
- limitMaximum allowed extent
- ceilingRoom's upper surface
- maximumGreatest permitted quantity
- fixedRestored or immovable
- absoluteTotal, without qualification
set in stone · no exceptions · cryptocurrency · token · supply · fundraising · investment · rigid · immovable · brick wall · boundary · strict · finite · scarcity · allocation · quota · cutoff · restriction
- capsceiling, price ceiling, rent ceiling, debt ceiling, debt limit
- tokenomicstokenomics, vesting, vesting period, vesting schedule, burning
hard capsoft cap
Adjustable upper boundary
adjustable cap · guideline · target · benchmark · threshold
hard capno cap
Slang for genuinely
no limit · unlimited · uncapped · open-ended · unrestricted
hard, cap, harder, hardest, harden, hardened, hardening, hardness, hardy