Top 7 token unlocks next week total $77.3M — GUA, H lead
Optimism's final core contributor and investor vesting tranche is the headline at $4.18M, but GUA and H together account for more than two-thirds of the week's unlocked supply.
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Optimism's final core contributor and investor vesting tranche is the headline at $4.18M, but GUA and H together account for more than two-thirds of the week's unlocked supply.
The seven-day calendar is front-loaded with HYPE, ENA, SXT, RED and OPN one-off cliffs, plus daily linear unlocks across RAIN, SOL and CC that together exceed $229 million in new supply.
The aggregate is meaningful, but the real risk sits in Undeads, PlaysOut and KITE AI, where 19-21% of market cap is set to hit the market in a single cliff.
The headline number clusters a half-dozen meaningful emissions around a single window — and a few of them, like SOL, run daily, not as one-off cliffs.
The $150.61M figure is large, but it's the 63.2% of market cap hit by Team and Investor allocations that turns this from routine vesting into a structural supply test.
Seven altcoin cliffs worth a combined ~$79M hit the market this week, with LayerZero, KAITO, and Humanity Protocol at the top of the stack.
An early $HYPE wallet is taking profit nine hours after withdrawing 500K tokens from Hyperliquid — and the move lands right as price broke above $67 to a new all-time high.
Five projects clear their initial cliff in the same window, releasing 12% of SXT and 9% of HUMA supply into circulation at once — a classic supply-shock setup with no historical pattern to soften it.
ICOs still command the largest fundraising totals, but IDO platforms are reshaping how new projects reach the market — Fjord Foundry alone ran 202 token sales versus CoinList's 80.
Combined value is small against majors like Bitcoin or Ethereum, but $3-21M unlocks against thin altcoin order books routinely show up as concentrated sell-side pressure on lower-cap names.
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