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.
An Arbitrum committee moved to ban three teams over 457,553 ARB in misused grants, but the proposed penalty cannot freeze wallets or claw back the funds.
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.
Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade activates September 28. Only 0.39 percent of stake ran the required client on September 1, and the window is tight.
Kraken is delisting 21 tokens on September 11 and will force-sell leftover balances between December 14 and 18, warning proceeds may be minimal or nil.
Solana trackers logged near $112M in September token unlocks. One memecoin, the TRUMP unlock, is over half of the total, and its tokens vest to insiders.
Altcoin treasury stocks ran up to 142 percent in two weeks while the tokens they hold rose far less, reviving the premium that just cracked on Bitcoin.
Unlock trackers list a 9.92 million HYPE unlock worth about $797 million on September 6, but the Hyper Foundation has claimed only a fraction each month.
Schwab will route Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink trades to 39.9 million accounts. XRP, the fifth-largest crypto at $85 billion, did not make the list.
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.
Kraken is force-selling seven delisted tokens this week. Its own notices show 56 more assets queued for automatic liquidation by November.
Sei shipped Ares and Eidos in its 6.6 proposal on Friday. The chain they rebuild settled 11,299 transactions and earns $14,700 a day.
MANTA fell 15% on an advisor unlock, but the release was tiny. The real problem is a Layer 2 network that earns about $13 a day.
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