$653M Crypto Tsunami: Brace for This Week’s Token Unlock Avalanche

Crypto markets are about to get a $653 million stress test.

Token Unlock Onslaught

Seven major projects are scheduled to release previously locked holdings this week—flooding the market with fresh supply. History shows these events often trigger sell pressure as early investors cash out.

Timing Is Everything

The unlocks hit during a fragile market recovery. While some see this as healthy profit-taking, others warn it could derail recent gains. "Nothing boosts liquidity like a good old-fashioned dump," quipped one sardonic trader.

Bull vs. Bear Battleground

Optimists point to strong tokenomics and vested schedules as safeguards. Skeptics counter that unlocks rarely occur at market tops—just ask anyone who bought the last ATH.

Heavy Supply Wave

Fasttoken (FTN) boasts the largest cliff unlock, with 20 million tokens, comprising just over 2% of supply, and valued at $91.6 million set to be released. Next is the GameFi platform Cheelee, which is set to release $88.87 million worth of its CHEEL token.

Other major events include 11.3 million coins from Aptos (APT), priced at $53.72 million, as well as Arbitrum (ARB) flooding the market with 92.65 million tokens at a value of $43.91 million. Elsewhere, Avalanche is unlocking 1.67 million AVAX tokens worth $40.15 million, with Sei adding 55.56 million of its native crypto pegged at $18.13 million into circulation.

Meanwhile, solana (SOL) leads the daily linear unlocks with 465,770 tokens worth $93.18 million to be distributed across the week, at about $13.4 million each day. The release comes at a significant time for SOL, which has rallied 14.2% over the past week, going from just over $167 to near $186, aided by rising institutional interest, though it remains 36.9% below its January all-time high.

According to CoinGecko, as of August 10, four public companies, Upexi, DeFi Developments Corp, SOL Strategies, and Torrent Capital, collectively hold over $591 million in SOL. Their stakes, amounting to 3.5 million tokens, represent 0.65% of the asset’s circulating supply.

TRUMP, DOGE, and LAYER

Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump’s OFFICIAL TRUMP (TRUMP) token will see 4.89 million units valued at $45.92 million released. The team will distribute about $6.52 million worth of the meme coin every day for the next seven days, representing 2.45% of the supply.

The Sam Altman-linked Worldcoin project will also add 37.23 million of its native WLD cryptocurrency, valued at $40.5 million.

Other significant daily unlocks will come from Bittensor (TAO), which is set to release 50,400 tokens worth $19.87 million, and Dogecoin (DOGE), pouring 95.49 million tokens worth $22.09 million into the market. DOGE has struggled to lift itself in the last 24 hours, only gaining a miserly 0.4% in that time to hover around $0.23.

However, performance has been much better over the last seven days, with the OG meme token up more than 18% in that period, buoyed by intensified whale activity, which saw the heavyweight investors recently acquire 1 billion Doge for about $200 million in a single day, bringing their share of circulating supply to nearly 50%.

Elsewhere, interoperability protocol LayerZero (LAYER), which just announced a $110 million all-token proposal to acquire Stargate, is also due for a $17.44 million cliff unlock. At the time of writing, LAYER was up 26.5% in the last 24 hours, as the market reacted to news of the Stargate deal.

It has also jumped more than 42% over the past week, significantly outperforming the global crypto market, which only managed a 7% rise in that period.