What Heima governs
Heima (HEI) is a DeFi protocol governance token, currently ranked 600th by market capitalization among the assets we track. Rather than being money itself, Heima is a claim on a financial protocol. Its worth tracks the fees, liquidity, and usage of the application beneath it far more than any monetary narrative.
Heima (HEI) is a decentralized finance and NFT platform that aims to create a sustainable ecosystem for digital assets and community engagement. It enables users to trade, invest, and participate in various blockchain-based financial services.
How value is supposed to accrue
The economic question is whether Heima captures the value its protocol creates. Total value locked and fee revenue are the inputs; the token's design decides how much of that reaches holders.
Background & fundamentals
The project publishes a whitepaper documenting its original design, which is worth reading before sizing any position in HEI. In sector terms it is most often filed under DeFi, Ethereum (ETH) Token (ERC-20), and Binance Coin (BNB) Token (BEP-20).
Where Heima sits in the market
With HEI near $0.1244, Heima carries a market capitalization of $9.63M. Around $9.44M changes hands across exchanges in a typical 24-hour window. That is a turnover of about 97.99% of the float — unusually high, the kind of churn that accompanies major news or speculative spikes.
About 92% of the hard cap of 100M HEI has been minted, leaving only modest issuance ahead. HEI remains -91% beneath its all-time high of $1.31, the kind of gap that historically takes a full cycle or a fresh catalyst to close.
What the price history shows
The tape currently reads 24-hour +12.40%, 7-day -7.07%, 30-day -30.02%, 1-year -83.10%. HEI is currently trading near the bottom of its 365-day range (around the 3rd percentile of recent closes).
Volatility profile
Recent action puts Heima in the Extreme-volatility band — it is in a high-volatility regime — these are the conditions where outsized gains and losses both become more likely. Over the last 30 days the move totals -30.02%, a useful input for stop placement and position sizing.
How to evaluate a DeFi token like Heima
A grounded read on HEI comes down to three questions:
- Protocol revenue — fees the application actually earns, and whether any of it reaches HEI holders.
- Total value locked — how much capital trusts the protocol — and how sticky it is versus mercenary yield.
- Token utility — whether HEI is load-bearing (governance over real value, fee rights) or decorative.
This page pulls live market data, on-chain stats where available, exchange-by-exchange volume, and our forecast model into one view so you can work through those questions in a single place. None of it is investment advice — it is a structured starting point for your own research.