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Token unlocks are one of the few advance-scheduled downside catalysts in crypto. They almost never happen without warning — you just never checked.
Noah Sterling
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June 23, 2026
You research an altcoin project — solid Token performance, active community, TVL growing fast. You buy in. A few weeks later, the price dumps 30% with no obvious bad news. Digging into on-chain data, you find it: a batch of early investor or team tokens 'unlocked' that day. This scenario plays out every single week in crypto markets. It's called a Token Unlock — and it almost never happens...