What Namecoin is
Namecoin (NMC) is a digital asset, currently ranked 543rd by market capitalization among the assets we track. Namecoin is a digital asset that trades across crypto exchanges alongside hundreds of other tokens. Its specific role is best understood from its own documentation, since it doesn't fit neatly into a single well-defined category.
How to approach Namecoin
Where a clean archetype is missing, the honest approach is to lean on observable facts: how it trades, how much supply exists, and what the project documents about its design.
Where Namecoin sits in the market
At $0.8796, Namecoin carries a market capitalization of $12.96M. Around $8.46K changes hands across exchanges in a typical 24-hour window. That is a turnover of about 0.07% of the float — on the quieter side, which can mean thinner liquidity for large orders.
What the price history shows
Across timeframes, NMC shows 24-hour +1.13%, 7-day -5.61%. Across roughly the last 366 days of daily candles, NMC endured a peak-to-trough drawdown of about 60% before stabilizing.
Volatility profile
Recent action puts Namecoin in the Moderate-volatility band — it shows the kind of price movement common in mid-cap crypto assets — meaningful but not unusual.
How to evaluate Namecoin
The honest checklist for NMC is short:
- Liquidity — how deep and reliable trading in NMC is across venues.
- Supply dynamics — circulating versus maximum supply and the resulting dilution path.
- Documentation — what the project itself claims, since standardized sector data is limited here.
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.