Market returns, recent secondary market catalyst summary
$PUMP |Pump.fun launched Easy Onramp,
supporting Apple Pay, Phantom, Robinhood, and other channels for instant deposits, lowering the entry barrier for newcomers.
$USYC · $SOL |Circle has deployed its tokenized money market fund USYC on Solana, open for subscription/redemption and on-chain use for qualified institutional investors.
$COW · $BNB |CoW Swap has expanded to BNB Chain, offering gas-free transactions, better price aggregation, and built-in MEV protection.
$BIRB |Moonbirds announced the upcoming issuance of the ecological token BIRB on Solana; the team emphasizes that there is currently "no contract address, no claiming process," and warns against phishing.
$SPK |The DeFi protocol Spark released its roadmap for the next 6 months: it will launch Savings V2, institutional lending, Spark Mobile, and advance Stablecoin-Liquidity-as-a-Service.
$STRK |Starknet announced BTCFi progress: supporting Bitcoin staking to secure L2, allowing BTC holders to jointly earn network rewards with STRK stakers.
$EIGEN |EigenLayer completed its brand upgrade to EigenCloud, launching two verifiable services on the mainnet alpha: EigenAI verifiable LLM inference API and EigenCompute verifiable computing.
I organized the unlocks of large-cap tokens for October,
along with the flow of unlocks and trading strategies, recommended for saving.
October 1: $SUI
Unlock scale: 44 million SUI (approximately $145 million)
Main flow: Series B investors, community reserves, early contributors
A large unlock at the beginning of the month, focus on observing whether the project party/investor addresses make large transfers to exchanges.
Prices usually come under pressure before and after the unlock, but if the market can effectively absorb this selling pressure, prices often rebound.
October 1: $EIGEN (EigenLayer)
Unlock scale: 36.82 million EIGEN (approximately $65-69 million)
Main flow: Investors, early contributors
Due to the main flow being early investors, the short-term outlook is bearish. It is necessary to pay attention to whether the protocol's own fundamental progress can offset this selling pressure.
October 2: $ENA (Ethena)
Unlock scale: 40.63 million ENA (approximately $14-15 million)
Main flow: All allocated to the foundation
The foundation's share is usually used for market making or ecological incentives, so the probability of direct dumping is low; just be cautious of any large, concentrated transfers to exchanges.
October 3: $IMX
Unlock scale: 24.5 million IMX
Main flow: Ecology and project development
A fixed unlock every 28 days, the market has already anticipated this, and with positive ecological announcements before and after the unlock, prices usually do not face significant impact.
October 11: $APT (Aptos)
Unlock scale: Approximately 11.3 million APT
Main flow: Foundation, community, core contributors, investors
A typical monthly linear unlock, the usual operation is to appropriately reduce positions or hedge about a week before the unlock and observe on-chain address movements.
October 15: $STRK (Starknet) & $SEI
$STRK unlock scale: Approximately 127 million STRK, flowing to early contributors and investors.
$SEI unlock scale: 55.56 million SEI, flowing to ecology, team, investors.
Both are long-term, regular monthly releases, and the market has anticipated this.
October 16: $ARB (Arbitrum)
Unlock scale: Approximately 93.65 million ARB
Main flow: Team/advisors, investors
A fixed monthly unlock for the L2 leader, for investors optimistic about the L2 track but worried about the impact of ARB unlocks, consider hedging risks with paired trades in the same track, for example, going long on OP while shorting ARB.
October 18: $ONDO
Unlock scale: Approximately 184.5 million ONDO (approximately $170-180 million level)
Main flow: Ecology and development quotas
As a hot project in the RWA track, this unlock amount is huge, closely monitor whether its foundation/multi-signature address has large transfers to exchanges, and observe the secondary market's liquidity absorption capacity; going all in on ONDO is no longer a wise choice.
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