How does NAM get from a Namada wallet to a sale?

NAM passes through up to four steps on its way to a sale: staked, unlocked, bridged and sold. Every step is public, which is why each one can be watched before it reaches the market.

What does staked NAM mean?

Staked NAM is locked with a validator: it earns new NAM but cannot be sold or moved.

  • Staked with validators: 267,180,094 NAM, 23.3% of all NAM (Namada nodes, 2026-10-18 06:14 UTC)

How is staked NAM unlocked?

Asking to unstake starts a wait set by the chain in epochs, its accounting periods. When the wait ends the NAM is unlocked: spendable, and free to be moved.

  • Unstaking wait: about 14.0 days (56 epochs of about 6 h, the epoch length measured on the chain; at least 14 days) (Namada chain parameters, 2026-10-18 04:00 UTC)

Why does NAM cross to Osmosis before a sale?

NAM can only be sold on Osmosis, so it has to be bridged there first. A crossing usually comes before a sale, which is why this site tracks NAM that crossed and has not yet been sold or sent back.

  • Held on Osmosis (wallets and pools): 19,927,753 NAM, 1.7% of all NAM (Osmosis bank, 2026-10-18 06:14 UTC)

What happens when NAM is sold?

On Osmosis, NAM is sold into small pools, so the size of an order moves the price it gets. The Trade page quotes any size against the pools as they are now.

  • Money in the Osmosis NAM pools: $1,839 across 28 pools (Osmosis router, 2026-10-18 06:14 UTC)
  • NAM price: $0.001026 (Osmosis router quote, 2026-10-18 06:14 UTC)

Which figures describe a trade before it happens?

Three figures describe a trade before it happens: how much money the pools hold, how far an order of a given size moves the price, and how much NAM is already waiting on Osmosis. None of them is a forecast, and nothing on this site is investment advice.

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