Hello World 2025-01-01
Bring all your Bitcoin data together, gain actionable insights, and simplify decision-making. With full support for On-chain and Lightning, Clams helps individuals and businesses operate on a Bitcoin standard. The Enterprise version is Launching in 2025—join the waitlist for early access.
Background
It all started with a simple question: Can we live on a Bitcoin standard today?
To find out, we ran Lightning nodes for daily payments and paired them with services like Bitrefill. The challenges quickly became apparent: every spend triggered a taxable event, and accounting for complex scenarios—like force-closed channels—turned into a logistical nightmare.
And that’s just Lightning. Like many Bitcoin holders, we have funds spread across various setups: single-sig, multi-sig, and mobile wallets. Meanwhile, new payment protocols like Ark and Cashu, along with emerging economic models like Value for Value, are adding even more layers of complexity.
This abundance of options makes Bitcoin incredibly powerful—but also increasingly difficult to track and manage.
The reality? Most Bitcoin holders avoid spending because tracking capital gains is tedious and time-consuming. For businesses, generating essential reports like profit and loss statements or cash flow analyses is even harder.
Bitcoin may be the best form of money, but it’s far from practical for everyday use.
Current Landscape
When tax season arrived, we had no choice but to write custom scripts to convert our Lightning node data into a format compatible with existing accounting software. The process was technical, time-consuming, and required sharing sensitive financial data with third parties.
To our surprise, many Bitcoiners face the same struggle—spending weekends reconciling transactions every year. Hiring professionals isn’t much better: it’s expensive, manual, and still invasive.
While “crypto” accounting tools exist, they often fall short for Bitcoin holders. Most focus on simple on-chain transactions and overlook the complexities of protocols like Lightning. This left us wondering:
- How many Bitcoiners are held back by these same challenges?
- Could accounting be a hidden barrier to Bitcoin adoption?
- What if there were a platform that respected privacy and autonomy?
Today, there’s no Bitcoin-first solution that addresses these issues.
Clams Fixes This
Enter Clams: a desktop app that preserves your privacy while giving you a complete view of your Bitcoin holdings. Built for individuals and businesses alike, Clams is designed to give you everything you need to live on a Bitcoin Standard.
Clams does this by syncing data from all your wallets—locally. The app automatically organizes your transactions, tracks wallet transfers, and transforms raw data into actionable insights.
We built Clams to solve our own problem. As a company attempting to operate on a Bitcoin standard, we understand firsthand the challenges that are slowing the adoption of circular economies.
Core Features
Sync
Effortlessly consolidate all your Bitcoin data in one place. Set it up once, and Clams automatically keeps everything up to date.
Enhance
Turn raw Bitcoin activity into structured, actionable data with smart tagging and classification.
Visualize
Gain insights with customizable charts and visualizations. Answer key questions like: How much did we spend on fees last quarter? How’s our performance this month?
Report
Quickly generate essential reports capital gains and profit and loss—saving time and reducing stress.
Join Us
Whether you’re a small business, a node operator, or someone tired of wrestling with spreadsheets, Clams is for you.
Who Can Benefit Today:
- Small businesses: Merchants accepting Bitcoin who need accurate, easy-to-generate financial reports.
- Bitcoin-native founders: Teams managing reserves and reporting financials to investors.
- Lightning node operators: Professionals tracking routing profitability and optimizing performance.
- Bitcoin startups: Builders who struggle to onboard businesses due to inadequate accounting tools.
We started with a personal and private desktop app tailored to individuals and small businesses. Through research, we discovered that larger businesses often prioritize features like scalability and multi-user access over privacy. That’s why we’re expanding our vision with an Enterprise offering. For those who value owning their own data, the native app will remain a great solution.
Our Enterprise launch is coming in 2025, but you can join the waitlist today for early access.
👉 Get early access to Clams Enterprise
🌐 Learn more at clams.tech