The crypto market will welcome 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 release important new token supplies.
These unlocks can lead to market volatility and affect price movements in the short term.
1. aptos (apt)
- Unlock date: August 12th
- Number of tokens to unlock: 1131 million APT (0.97% of total supply)
- Current circulation supply: 672.7 million apt
- Total supply: 1.17 billion apt
Aptos is the Layer-1 blockchain platform. It provides scalability, security and efficiency for this distributed application (DAPPS) and Web3 ecosystem, developed by APTOS Labs. Use the Move programming language.
On August 12th, the team will release 11.31 million tokens worth around $54.17 million. This supply is consistent with previous unlocks.
The apt token will be unlocked in August. Source: Tokenomist
There are 3.96 million APTs in core contributors. The team will distribute 3.21 million tokens to the community. Additionally, investors and foundations will win 2.81 million tokens and 1.33 million tokens, respectively.
2..Arbitrator (Q)
- Unlock date: August 16th
- Number of tokens to unlock: 92.65 million ARB (0.93% of total supply)
- Current circulation supply: 5.15 billion ARB
- Total supply: 10 billion ARB
Arbitrum is a Layer 2 scaling solution built for Ethereum (ETH). Increase transaction speeds and reduce costs while maintaining security for your Ethereum network. Blockchain accomplishes this by taking advantage of an “optimistic rollup” that processes transactions off-chain and sends them to the Ethereum mainnet for verification.
Arbitrum will release a new supply of 92.65 million tokens to the market on August 16th. The token is worth $42.85 million, accounting for 1.8% of its current market capitalization.
The ARB token will be unlocked in August. Source: Tokenomist
Teams, future teams and advisors will earn 56.13 million ARBs from unlocked supply. Additionally, Arbitrum will award 36.52 million tokens to investors.
3. AVALANCHE (AVX)
- Unlock date: August 15th
- Number of tokens to unlock: 167 million avax (0.36% of total supply)
- Current circulation supply: 422.2 million avax
- Total supply: 720 million avax
Avalanche is a high-performance, open source layer 1 blockchain platform. It uses a unique three-stranded architecture for scalability, speed and security.
On August 15th, Avalanche unlocks 1.67 million items worth approximately $40 million. The token represents 0.39% of the circular supply, and the basis receives the entire unlocked supply.
The Avax token will be cancelled in August. Source: Tokenomist
In addition to these, other notable unlocks investors can look out for in the second week of August include Cheelee (Cheel), Connex (Conx), and SEI (SEI).
