The cryptocurrency market will receive tokens worth approximately $851.3 million in the second week of August 2025. In particular, three major ecosystems - Aptos (APT), Arbitrum (ARB), and Avalanche (AVAX) - will announce a significant amount of new token supply.
These unlocks could cause market volatility and potentially impact price movements in the short term.
1. Aptos (APT)
- Unlock Date: August 12
- Number of Tokens to be Unlocked: 1,131,000 APT (0.97% of total supply)
- Current Circulating Supply: 672,700,000 APT
- Total Supply: 1,170,000,000 APT
Aptos is a layer-1 blockchain platform. Developed by Aptos Labs, this platform provides scalability, security, and efficiency for decentralized applications (dApps) and the web3 ecosystem. The platform uses the Move programming language.
On August 12, the team will release 1,131,000 tokens worth approximately $5,417,000. This supply is consistent with previous unlocks.
Key contributors will receive 3,960,000 APT. The team will distribute 3,210,000 tokens to the community. Additionally, investors and the foundation will receive 2,810,000 and 1,330,000 tokens, respectively.
2. Arbitrum (ARB)
- Unlock Date: August 16
- Number of Tokens to be Unlocked: 92,650,000 ARB (0.93% of total supply)
- Current Circulating Supply: 5,150,000,000 ARB
- Total Supply: 10,000,000,000 ARB
Arbitrum is a layer-2 scaling solution built for Ethereum (ETH). This solution increases transaction speed and reduces costs while maintaining the security of the Ethereum network. The blockchain uses 'optimistic rollups' to process transactions off-chain and submit them for verification on the Ethereum mainnet.
Arbitrum will introduce 92,650,000 new tokens to the market on August 16. These tokens are worth approximately $42,850,000 and represent 1.8% of the current market capitalization.
The team, future team, and advisors will receive 56,130,000 ARB from the unlocked supply. Additionally, Arbitrum will distribute 36,520,000 tokens to investors.
3. Avalanche (AVAX)
- Unlock Date: August 15
- Number of Tokens to be Unlocked: 1,670,000 AVAX (0.36% of total supply)
- Current Circulating Supply: 422,000,000 AVAX
- Total Supply: 720,000,000 AVAX
Avalanche is a high-performance open-source layer-1 blockchain platform. The platform uses a unique 3-chain architecture for scalability, speed, and security.
On August 15, Avalanche will unlock 1,670,000 tokens worth approximately $40,200,000. These tokens represent 0.39% of the circulating supply, and the foundation will receive the entire unlocked supply.
Additionally, other notable unlocks in the second week of August that investors should pay attention to include Chirle (CHEEL), Conex (CONX), and Sei (SEI).
