Aptos Set a Record Low Then Unlocked 11 Million Tokens
Aptos hit an all-time low on August 30, then unlocked 11.31 million more APT, with close to 60% going to insiders and most of the supply still to come.
Aptos hit an all-time low on August 30, then unlocked 11.31 million more APT, with close to 60% going to insiders and most of the supply still to come.
Linea unlocked 960.13 million tokens on September 10 for about 2.75 million dollars, and every coin routed to the consortium rather than public holders.
Monero jumped near 50% in August, yet the 9.4 billion dollar coin trades only 78 million a day. Exchange delistings and a new THORChain rail explain it.
Harmony will shut its Layer 1 on September 10 and migrate ONE to Ethereum, saying it can no longer defend the chain against state actors and AI agents.
Linea sold no tokens to VCs or its own team, yet nearly 90% of the supply sits with Consensys and its consortium, and a September 10 unlock now feeds it.
Zcash cleared $1,000 for a nine-year high, yet 71 percent of ZEC still sits in transparent addresses as a Grayscale ETF and a Nasdaq treasury lead buying.
XRP rallied nearly 40 percent in late August, yet XRP futures open interest fell 16 percent and CME passed Binance as the top venue. Bought, not borrowed.
Bitwise's BSOL has become the first Solana ETF to top $1 billion in assets under management, yet buyers put in $1.01 billion while shares slid 40 percent.
Ethena's proposed fee switch would send 95% of revenue to ENA buybacks, but only once USDe hits $7.5 billion. It sits near $4.6 billion today.
MANTRA brought its chain back online with a patched build, but the postmortem it promised never arrived and the fix quietly blocklisted an address.
Plasma was built to move stablecoins for free and rival TRON. XPL trades 95% below its high, and the base chain earned $573 in a day.
DGrid AI launched with DGAI up 93% and a $700 million fully diluted value, but only 15% of the token trades and the $20M revenue was membership fees.
Huma Finance ran over $12 billion in payments, yet HUMA is down 82% and its biggest unlock of the week hits a market worth just $37 million.
DefiLlama lists 99% of Hyperliquid fees going to the HYPE buyback. Over 30 days only 69% arrived, and 61% in the last day.
Lido's NEST buyback goes to an on-chain vote this week, but the trigger sits above what the protocol currently earns in a day.
Seventeen altcoins release locked tokens between April 28 and May 3, with KITE alone unlocking nearly half its $256M market cap. Five projects are dumping more than 20% of their float in a single day.
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