PEARL has 6,875 known holders, bucketed into ten ocean-creature tiers from Aquaman (≥ 1M PEARL) down to Plankton (dust). Each holder lands in exactly one tier — the buckets below are non-cumulative, so the counts add up to the total holder count. This view shows you how decentralized (or concentrated) the chain's wealth currently is.
| Tier | Holders | Total held | Share | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🧜♂️ Aquaman | 4 | 10,849,374 PRL | 8.38% | ≥ 1M PRL |
| 🐋 Humpback | 248 | 59,899,882 PRL | 46.27% | 100K – 1M PRL |
| 🐳 Whale | 160 | 11,047,593 PRL | 8.53% | 50K – 100K PRL |
| 🦈 Shark | 1,272 | 25,150,086 PRL | 19.43% | 10K – 50K PRL |
| 🐬 Dolphin | 5,191 | 22,506,324 PRL | 17.39% | 1K – 10K PRL |
| 🐟 Fish | 0 | 0 PRL | 0.00% | 100 – 1K PRL |
| 🐙 Octopus | 0 | 0 PRL | 0.00% | 10 – 100 PRL |
| 🦀 Crab | 0 | 0 PRL | 0.00% | 1 – 10 PRL |
| 🦐 Shrimp | 0 | 0 PRL | 0.00% | 0.01 – 1 PRL |
| 🦠 Plankton | 0 | 0 PRL | 0.00% | < 0.01 PRL |
The very top of the distribution. Aquamans are typically large institutional miners or early adopters who accumulated heavily before difficulty climbed. Movements in this tier are rare but impactful — a single Aquaman selling can move price significantly.
Major holders who've either mined consistently for months or bought in at scale. Humpbacks dominate the rich list and are typically the most-watched addresses for accumulation/distribution signals.
Significant holders, often well-resourced miners or strategic buyers. Together with Humpbacks they hold the lion's share of supply.
Mid-tier holders. Many active miners whose wallets have grown through consistent block production over weeks or months sit here.
Active retail holders and casual miners. Often the most numerous tier in mature chains; growth here signals broad participation.
Smaller holders, typically retail buyers or first-time miners. These tiers populate as the chain matures and casual interest builds.
The dust holders — addresses with very small balances, often left over from mining payouts that never got consolidated. Plankton-tier addresses can include exchange hot wallets that have only seen tiny test deposits.
The dashboard's live distribution table shows a 24-hour change column for each tier. When the Whale or Humpback count rises, accumulation is happening. When it falls, distribution to smaller tiers is in progress. Sustained Plankton growth typically signals new users entering the network.
Every PEARL block reward goes to a coinbase output. We walk the entire chain from genesis on every full node refresh, sum the rewards each address has ever received, and bucket the resulting balances into the ten tiers. There's no on-chain "balance" RPC for non-main-chain addresses, so this approach gives us the accurate cumulative-received view (a close proxy to current balance while on-chain transfer activity is still light).