Token unlock calendar
The “Unlocks” tab of Analytics (/unlocks): when and how many tokens enter circulation for every coin in the screener, what that is worth at our price, its share of supply and of daily volume — and what price did on that coin's past unlocks.
Open Analytics → Unlocks. Events are grouped by day in your time zone (the same zone picker as the events calendar); the first screen shows today and the nearest days. Above the list is a summary across all coins: what price did on past notable unlocks on average.
What an unlock is
Part of almost every young token's supply is locked: for the team, early investors, the foundation, rewards and the ecosystem. The schedule that releases those tokens is called vesting, and each release is an unlock. A one-off release on a date is a “cliff”; a steady daily release is “linear”. An unlock does not have to move the price, but the larger its share of daily volume, the more visible the possible pressure: recipients often want to sell.
Where the data comes from and what is ours
- Schedules come from DefiLlama's open data: 370+ projects, refreshed once a day; the refresh date is printed under the title. Dates and amounts are set by the project and may change — we neither invent nor edit them.
- A coin is accepted only on two proofs: its CoinGecko ticker matches ours AND the CoinGecko price agrees with ours. Ticker alone is not enough — exchanges list different tokens under the same ticker.
- The dollar amount of an event is tokens multiplied by our live price of the coin, not someone else's.
- “Of supply” is the share of circulating supply per the source; “Of volume” is the share of the coin's daily volume with us, across all exchanges. No denominator — a dash, not a zero.
- The recipient category — team, investors, foundation & treasury, ecosystem, community, rewards & staking, airdrop, public sale, liquidity — is our grouping of the source's labels.
Filters
- Window — 7, 30 or 90 days ahead.
- “Amount from” — a dollar threshold; $100K by default, otherwise the list drowns in daily rewards worth a few dollars. “Any” removes it.
- “Cliffs only” — on by default: linear releases happen every day and hide the events. Turn it off to see changes of the linear release rate; for those the “Tokens” column shows the new rate per day.
What price did on past unlocks
This is the one part unlock calendars do not have: for every past cliff of a coin we take its price from our minute history one day before the event, at the event, one day after and three days after — and show the median changes and the share of cases where price was higher a day later. Only notable unlocks count (from 0.1% of supply) and at least three cases; in the list the “Past, day after” column is that coin's median, and the summary under the title covers all coins over two years. It is statistics, not a forecast: it says what happened, not what will.
On the coin page
A coin with a schedule has an “Unlocks” block under its description: up to three upcoming events with amounts and shares, how many unlocks have passed, the current linear release per day and the price reaction on this coin's past unlocks. Coins without vesting (bitcoin, ether, old coins) have no block.
Limitations
- Not every coin is covered: only those whose schedule the source has and whose price confirmed the match. A coin missing from the list means either no schedule or no proof it is the same coin.
- Event time comes from the project's schedule; linear schedules can have “odd” times (say 22:19) — that is how the source computed them.
- Price reaction depends on having minute data for that date; coins whose history we started recently have few cases and no summary.
- We do not advise what to do before an unlock and do not score “pressure” — only numbers: how much, when, what share.
Questions and answers
Why is my coin not in the calendar?
Either the source has no schedule for it, or it has one but the CoinGecko price for that id did not agree with ours — then we hide it rather than attribute a foreign token. Exchanges list different coins under the same ticker.
Where does the dollar amount come from?
The event's tokens multiplied by our current price of the coin. When the price moves, the amount moves too, so the same event shows different amounts in the morning and in the evening.
What does “Of volume 300%” mean?
That all exchanges together trade three times less of this coin per day than will be released at once. It does not mean every token will be sold — it shows the size of the event relative to the coin's market.
Why is the reaction negative while the price rose after an unlock?
The summary is a median over past cases, not a rule. Half the cases were worse than the median, half better. Look also at the “up a day later” share: 47% means almost every second unlock was followed by a rise.
How often is the schedule refreshed?
Once a day, at night UTC; the refresh date is under the page title. If a project moves an unlock, we show it the next day.