Clams ranks #394 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5424: 5030 of the 5423 assets ahead of it are not native coins but tokens or claims. A token is issued on a host blockchain rather than running its own; a claim stands for an asset already counted.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #394 |
| Rank counting claims | #5424 |
| Price | $0.2758 |
| Circulating supply | 0 CLAM |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | PoS (initial distribution by dig; PoW ended at block 10,000) |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
Market figures from the 28 October 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.
Grade pending. Clams's launch — how much went to insiders, whether it was sold to investors — is still being researched. A grade is not given until it is, so that a coin is never rated higher for what is not yet known.
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source) | 9.1 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 5.4 | group average, 4 of 12 measured |
| Sound Money Properties (6 checks) (Source) | 5 | 2 of 4 points, 2 not yet measured |
| Scarcity (Limited supply · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §6) | – | |
| Durability (Sustainability · 1 Store of value) | – | 12 full years since its first recorded price, record not yet reviewed |
| Fungibility (Interchangeability · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | every unit identical and worth any other |
| Portability (Scalability · 2 Medium of exchange) | ✗ | typical fee $0.000028; about 74 transactions a second, 4.2 on the throughput scale (5 is the busiest networks' median demand) |
| Divisibility (Flexibility · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | 8 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $2.8e-9 |
| Verifiability (Authenticity check · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | no light clients or pruned nodes |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 5.7 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.000028 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 4.2 | about 74 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 6.4 | a block every 1 minutes |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 8 | 1 MB limit, 9.84 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 0 | 0 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper §11) | – | |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✗ | Clam Client v2.1.0-beta.1 (Dec 2019, PPCoin-era code) has no pruning mode; nodes keep every block. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | Clams (PoS) (pre-BIP37 code) serves no Merkle proofs or block filters, so light wallets trust servers. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | — | 0 of 3 points, 6 not yet measured |
| Miner pay (A day, $1,000 0 to $10 million 10; 2 points) | 0 | not mined |
| Own hashrate (Half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined) | ✗ | not mined |
| Largest pool (Pool or validator under 50%) | – | |
| Largest three (Under 75% together) | – | |
| Clients (More than one maintained) | – | |
| Open source (Node software) | – | |
| Real use (1,000+ transactions a day) | – | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | – | |
| Decentralisation | 8.6 | section average, 1 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | — | Not yet researched |
| No central team (Source) | — | Not yet researched |
| Who can mint (Source) | 8.6 | Proof of stake: 8.6 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | — | Not yet counted |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | — | Launch not yet researched |
| Fundraising | — | Launch not yet researched |
| Developer share (after launch) | — | Not yet researched |
| Privacy | 2.5 | section average |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 2.5 | 1 of 5 passed, 1 not yet measured source |
| Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10) | ✓ | Clams's Bitcoin-derived node (nochowderforyou/clams) has no identity rule: anyone generates keys and receives and sends the coin. |
| UTXO ledger (A new key for each payment · Whitepaper §2, §9) | – | |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | ✗ | Clam Client v2.1.0-beta.1 (Dec 2019, PPCoin-era code): no Dandelion; Tor is only used if the operator runs and configures it. |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | ✗ | Transparent Bitcoin-style amounts; no confidential transactions. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | ✗ | Transparent addresses and inputs; no ring signatures or stealth addresses. |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 3.3 | 3 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts (Scripting for spending conditions) | 1 | Clams runs Bitcoin-style Script limited to spending conditions (signatures, hash locks, multisig); no contract VM or token introspection. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | OP_CHECKMULTISIG plus OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY, enforced for version-7 blocks under protocol v2 (current blocks are version 7); no CSV. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✓ | HTLCs built from Script hash locks (OP_SHA256/OP_HASH160) with a CLTV refund branch are standard Script, so cross-chain hash-locked swaps work on Clams. |
| Native exchange (Built into the protocol) | ✗ | No exchange or order book in the Clams consensus rules. |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✗ | Clams nodes verify no other chain; no protocol-level cross-chain messaging. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | No token or NFT type in the Clams consensus rules. |
| Supply & Demand | 0 | group average, 1 of 2 measured |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 0 | average of 1 measure |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 0 | no exchange the site reads trades it |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | – | no volume reported |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | – | not measured |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | – | not measured |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | – | not measured |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | – | not measured |
| Supply (smaller is better) | — | Supply not reported |
| Record | 10 | group average, 1 of 3 measured |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | — | Not yet reviewed |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 10 | 12 full years since 2014-08-26, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | — | Not yet measured: no commit count and no release research |
Twenty criteria, weighted equally. The Cryptocurrency Standards have five sections: sound money (six qualities: scarcity, durability, fungibility, portability, divisibility, verifiability), scalability (four measures and three features), security (miner pay and seven checks), decentralisation (censorship resistance, no central team, who can mint, nodes, holders, premine, fundraising and developer share) and privacy (five checks); programmability (token issuance, smart contracts and five checks) follows them. Provisional: criteria marked — are not yet measured and are left out of the average. A rating of structure and market depth, not a price forecast or investment advice. How the grade is built · Highest-graded cryptocurrencies.
0 CLAM are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
The regulator's position, reported as stated, not CoinSpectrum's. Assets nobody has ruled on are left unclassified rather than sorted by a guess.
Clams is #394 among cryptocurrencies and #5424 in the market ranking, which lists wrapped coins, staked derivatives, stablecoins and tokens alongside them. CoinSpectrum counts an asset once, and counts only cryptocurrencies: assets with their own blockchain and their own consensus. A wrapped coin, a staked derivative or a stablecoin is a claim on something already counted; a token, memecoin or otherwise, runs on another chain's blocks. All of them are listed, each in its own section, and none is added to the total. The 5030 places between Clams's two ranks are held by claims and tokens, not by other networks. The methodology sets out the rule and the counting rule argues for it.
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