What Nomina governs
Nomina (NOM) is a DeFi protocol governance token, currently ranked 480th by market capitalization among the assets we track. Rather than being money itself, Nomina 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.
Nomina (NOM) is a digital currency designed to facilitate transactions and promote economic participation within a decentralized ecosystem. It aims to enhance financial accessibility and incentivize user engagement.
How value is supposed to accrue
DeFi tokens are worth something when the protocol generates fees and routes value to holders — through revenue share, buybacks, or governance over a real treasury. Without that link, a governance token is just a vote.
Background & fundamentals
In sector terms it is most often filed under Recently Added, DeFi, and Marketplace.
Where Nomina sits in the market
At $0.00169102, Nomina carries a market capitalization of $4.90M. Around $3.55M changes hands across exchanges in a typical 24-hour window. That is a turnover of about 72.35% of the float — unusually high, the kind of churn that accompanies major news or speculative spikes.
Almost the entire NOM supply is already in circulation (~100.0% of the 7.5B cap), so future dilution is effectively off the table. NOM remains -96% beneath its all-time high of $0.0470, 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 +1.74%, 7-day +2.00%. Across roughly the last 245 days of daily candles, NOM endured a peak-to-trough drawdown of about 95% before stabilizing.
Volatility profile
Recent action puts Nomina 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 a DeFi token like Nomina
For an asset of this type, three lenses matter most:
- Protocol revenue — fees the application actually earns, and whether any of it reaches NOM holders.
- Total value locked — how much capital trusts the protocol — and how sticky it is versus mercenary yield.
- Token utility — whether NOM 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.