3.3 Billion Dollars About To Flood The Crypto Market
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The month of June promises to be less eventful than May on the crypto unlocking front. According to Tokenomist, 3.3 billion dollars worth of tokens will be released in June, a decrease of 32% compared to May's 4.9 billion. Could this wave of liquidity disrupt the market's fragile balance?
3.3 billion dollars in crypto will flood the markets in June
Crypto projects often lock their tokens for months or years. This practice, called 'vesting,' prevents early investors and teams from selling everything at once. The goal? To avoid sharp price drops before the project matures.
June will see the maturity of several of these lock-up periods. The breakdown reveals a balanced strategy: 1.4 billion dollars via 'cliff unlocks' (massive immediate release)
1.9 billion dollars on a progressive, staggered schedule over time
This approach limits liquidity shocks while giving projects the funds they need for development.
Sui Network kicks off on June 1 with 44 million tokens released, around 160 million dollars.
This Layer 1 blockchain already shows an impressive record: 3.3 billion tokens unlocked out of a total 12 billion, representing 33% of its total supply. However, 5.22 billion tokens remain pending without a precise schedule.
The distribution of Sui funds revolves around several strategic goals: 70 million dollars for Series B investors
Rewards for development teams
Funding of Mysten Labs' treasury
Top-up of the community reserve
Metars Genesis hits hard on June 21 with 193 million dollars. This NFT project will finance an artificial intelligence partnership. Since March, it has regularly released 10 million per month, totaling nearly one billion to date.
Other players complete the picture: Fasttoken: 20 million tokens (88 million dollars) for founders
LayerZero: 25 million tokens (71 million dollars) for contributors
Aptos: 11.31 million tokens (61 million dollars) distributed among teams, foundation, and investors
ZKsync: over 760 million tokens (49 million dollars) for teams
These June 2025 unlocks come in a particular context. The FTX case, with its planned 5 billion reimbursements by the end of May, could energize the ecosystem. Former platform clients, who are recovering 61% of their funds blocked since November 2022, now have fresh liquidity to reinvest.
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