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The first week of November is bringing major moves to the crypto market. Three big projects Ethena (ENA), Memecoin (MEME), and Movement (MOVE) are set to release large amounts of tokens, possibly creating short-term volatility and trading opportunities.



1. Ethena (ENA): A $61 Million Unlock Looms



Ethena’s next unlock lands on November 5, 2025, releasing 171.88 million ENA tokens worth nearly $61.5 million around 2.52% of total supply.

This could cause temporary selling pressure if investors take profit, though strong holders or staking activity might limit downside risk.



2. Memecoin (MEME): High Risk, High Emotion Event


November 3, 2025 marks a big moment for Memecoin, with 3.45 billion MEME tokens (around 6% of supply) unlocking, worth roughly $5.15 million.

Given MEME’s sentiment-driven nature, this unlock could bring extreme volatility either sharp dips or sudden rebounds, depending on community behavior.



3. Movement (MOVE): Small Cap, Big Impact



On November 9, 2025, Movement will unlock 50 million MOVE tokens, valued near $3.2 million.

Though smaller than others, MOVE’s low liquidity means even modest unlocks can trigger large swings, so traders should stay alert.



Overall Market Picture



Combined, these unlocks total over $300 million in new supply. While unlocks often spark short-term pressure, they can also support ecosystem growth if tokens are used for incentives or development.

The real impact will depend on on-chain movements, exchange inflows, and market sentiment through the week.



What Traders Should Watch


Large wallets or “whales” moving unlocked tokensExchange inflows post-unlockMarket tone across altcoins


Final Thoughts



November’s first week could set the tone for the rest of the month. Ethena’s massive $61M unlock, Memecoin’s 6% release, and Movement’s low liquidity event are key catalysts to monitor.
Stay informed volatility brings both risk and opportunity in equal measure.



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I want to share something that most ASTER investors might have completely missed — and it could explain what’s happening to the price lately.


Let’s talk facts, not hype.



📊 The Supply Story That Nobody’s Talking About


When ASTER launched in September, its circulating supply was only 1.6 billion tokens.

Then came the October 14 airdrop — 320 million new tokens entered circulation overnight.


The result? The price instantly reacted — dropping from $1.30 → $0.90 within a week.


That’s not random volatility — that’s dilution.


Right now, the total circulating supply has already reached 2 billion tokens.


Most people stopped checking after that. But here’s the real bombshell: it’s just the beginning.



🚨 The Next Big Unlock Wave Is Coming


According to the official schedule, a massive 1.49 billion tokens are still waiting to be unlocked.


Let’s break it down 👇




Unlock date: November 17 — just 13 days away


Unlocked amount: 78 million tokens in the next round


Frequency: One unlock every month for the next 20 months




By the end of this cycle, the total circulation could nearly double again.


And if you’ve seen how past unlocks have affected price, you already know —

this isn’t a small event.



🧠 Why This Matters


Token unlocks are like silent sell pressure — every time new tokens hit the market, early investors or teams might sell to take profits or fund operations.


That doesn’t automatically mean ASTER is “bad.”

But it does mean traders should understand the timing risk before jumping in blindly.


If history repeats, we might see short-term price reactions around each unlock event — just like we saw in October.


So don’t get trapped by sudden dips or fake bounces.

Know the calendar, plan your entries, and manage your expectations.



🎥 What’s Next


I’ll be posting a detailed video analysis soon covering ASTER’s unlock curve and how it may align with HYPE’s upcoming unlock as well.


If you’re holding or thinking of entering these projects — this data is your shield.


Knowledge > Emotion.



“In crypto, the chart tells you when to enter —

but the unlock schedule tells you when to survive.”



Stay smart, stay informed, and share this post so more people don’t get caught off guard.
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Here's what most people miss about token unlocks: they're not about the tokens—they're about the teams.
When a project has a major unlock scheduled and the founders are panicking, scrambling to manufacture hype, desperately trying to prop up price before the dump—that tells you everything. But when a team has an unlock coming and they're heads-down shipping features, onboarding partners, and treating it as just another line item on the tokenomics calendar? That's a different signal entirely.
This week brings both kinds of unlocks—and a handful of fresh token launches that will either prove their teams can execute or expose them as vapor. Let's look at what's actually happening beneath the surface of these scheduled events, because the tokens tell a story, but the builders behind them tell the truth.


Understanding Token Unlocks Like a Builder
Before diving into specific projects, let's reframe what unlocks actually represent.
For traders, unlocks are volatility events—potential sell pressure, price dips, short-term chaos. For builders, unlocks are accountability moments. They're when early investors, team members, and advisors get their vested tokens and make a choice: hold because we believe in what we're building, or exit because the mission was always just the token.
Every unlock is a referendum on conviction. Not market conviction—internal conviction. When team tokens unlock and they hold, that's belief. When investor tokens unlock and they accumulate more, that's validation. When advisor tokens unlock and they immediately dump, that's a warning.
So as we walk through this week's unlocks, we're not just looking at percentages and token counts. We're looking at what these events reveal about whether the projects are being built for years or were only ever designed for one cycle.
EigenLayer: The Restaking Revolution Gets Real
November 1, 2025

8.48% of market cap unlocking (~36.82M $EIGEN)
EigenLayer represents one of crypto's most ambitious infrastructure experiments: restaking. The idea is elegant—why should staked ETH only secure Ethereum when it could simultaneously secure other protocols, earning multiple yields?
This unlock size (8.48%) is significant but not catastrophic. What matters more is context: EigenLayer has been building methodically through the bear market and into this cycle. They've attracted serious developers. Major protocols are integrating their tech. The TVL (total value locked) has grown despite market conditions.
For builders watching this space, the question isn't "will the unlock cause a dip?" It's "is the infrastructure robust enough that institutional players see the dip as opportunity?" Because restaking isn't a meme—it's a genuine technical innovation that makes Ethereum more capital-efficient.
If EigenLayer's unlock creates short-term volatility, pay attention to what happens after. Do serious projects continue integrating? Do developers keep building on the platform? Does TVL recover? Those metrics matter infinitely more than weekly price action.
The builder's perspective: This is infrastructure that either becomes foundational to Ethereum's scaling story or gets eclipsed by better solutions. The unlock doesn't change that trajectory—it just tests whether current holders understand the long-term value proposition.
Tars Protocol: The Smaller, Steadier Play
November 2, 2025

3.26% of market cap unlocking (~19.12M $TAI)
Tars Protocol's unlock is modest—just over 3% of market cap. For a project that's been relatively quiet compared to ecosystem giants, this is a moment to watch how they handle increased circulating supply.
What's interesting about smaller unlocks like this is they test a different kind of resilience. Large unlocks generate attention—analysts write about them, traders position for them, communities debate them. Small unlocks happen quietly. They reveal whether a project's organic demand can absorb new supply without drama.
For builders, projects like Tars represent the middle tier of crypto—not the headline-grabbing protocols, but the specialized tools and platforms that serve specific niches. Their success depends less on hype and more on whether they solve actual problems for actual users.
The unlock itself likely creates minimal disruption. But it's a reminder that in crypto's long tail of projects, hundreds of teams are building quietly, testing product-market fit, iterating on real user feedback rather than optimizing for token price.
Coca Wallet: Consumer Crypto's Ongoing Challenge
November 3, 2025

11.4% of market cap unlocking (~12.97M $COCA)
Consumer-facing crypto applications face a brutal challenge: they need to be better than Web2 alternatives while also being crypto-native. Wallets especially carry this burden—they're the interface between users and blockchain, and if they're clunky or confusing, adoption stalls.
Coca Wallet's 11.4% unlock is moderate but meaningful. For a consumer product, this is a moment where community sentiment matters enormously. If users love the product and see the dip as a buying opportunity, the unlock gets absorbed. If the product is "fine but not amazing," sell pressure dominates.
From a builder's lens, consumer crypto is the hardest vertical to nail. You're competing with polished Web2 apps that have millions in UX budgets and zero blockchain complexity. Your advantage is ownership, sovereignty, and interoperability—but those benefits are abstract to most users who just want things to work.
The projects that survive in consumer crypto are the ones that obsess over small details. Load times. Onboarding flows. Error messages that don't use jargon. Coca's unlock will test whether they've built that level of product excellence, because without it, no tokenomics schedule can save you.
Cheelee: When Unlocks Get Serious
November 10, 2025

36.6% of market cap unlocking (~20.81M $CHEEL)
Now we're talking about a major event. Over a third of market cap unlocking in a single event means serious dilution and serious questions.
Cheelee operates in the "watch videos, earn crypto" category—a vertical that's been attempted dozens of times with mixed results. The core challenge: if your primary value proposition is "we pay you to watch," you attract mercenaries, not community. Users show up for rewards, not product love.
A 36.6% unlock in this context is make-or-break. If the unlocked tokens belong primarily to early speculators and mercenary capital, expect aggressive selling. If they belong to team members and long-term believers who've built something users genuinely value, the unlock might be absorbed with less chaos than feared.
For builders, Cheelee represents the double-edged sword of incentive design. Crypto enables powerful incentive mechanisms—but if your entire model depends on those incentives rather than intrinsic product value, you're building on sand.
The unlock will reveal which side of that line Cheelee falls on. Are they a product people use because it's great, with tokens as a bonus? Or are they tokens with a product wrapper, where usage evaporates the moment rewards do?
CryptoAutos: Volume vs. Percentage
November 11, 2025

6.95% of market cap unlocking (~51.48M $AUTOS)
CryptoAutos presents an interesting case: moderate percentage (6.95%) but high token count (51.48M). This combination means the unlock is significant in absolute terms but shouldn't fundamentally alter market dynamics if liquidity is decent.
The automotive + crypto intersection is fascinating from a builder perspective. Cars represent massive value that's highly illiquid in traditional markets. Tokenization could theoretically unlock liquidity, fractional ownership, and better financing options.
But—and this is a big but—car ownership is deeply rooted in traditional systems. Insurance. Registration. Financing. Legal title. Crypto can't just ignore these systems; it has to integrate with or improve upon them. That's a 10-year problem, not a 10-month problem.
CryptoAutos' unlock matters less for immediate price impact and more for what it reveals about their timeline. Are they building for the long-haul, recognizing that meaningful automotive tokenization requires years of regulatory work, partnership development, and infrastructure building? Or were they chasing the NFT/tokenization hype of previous cycles?
The way the team and community handle this unlock will signal which story is true.
The TGE Landscape: Where Innovation Actually Happens
Token generation events (TGEs) are where new projects enter the arena. Unlike unlocks—which are scheduled obligations—TGEs represent teams saying "we're ready to put our work into the market and let reality judge it."
This week's TGE slate is diverse, ranging from microcap experiments to AI-narrative plays to DeFi infrastructure. Let's look at what each represents from a builder's lens.
Talisman: Starting Small, Thinking Big
November 2, 2025

Raise: $350K | Initial FDV: $30M
Talisman raised $350K—a relatively modest seed for crypto standards. The $30M initial FDV suggests conservative valuation and limited circulating supply at launch.
For builders, small raises are actually encouraging signals in current market conditions. They suggest the team is capital-efficient, not burning through runway on marketing and hype. A $350K raise forces discipline—you can't hire a 50-person team or spend six figures on influencer campaigns. You have to build lean and prove value.
The flip side: small raises also mean less firewall against market downturns. If Talisman hits obstacles, they can't just deploy more capital to solve problems. They have to iterate, pivot, or fundraise again—each of which tests resilience.
From an investment perspective, the risk-reward here depends entirely on execution. Low raise + low FDV + strong product could be a genuine opportunity. Low raise + low FDV + weak product is just a microcap destined for obscurity.
MemeMakerFun: The Microcap Lottery Ticket
November 3, 2025

Raise: $550K | Initial Market Cap: $243.9K
MemeMakerFun's stats immediately signal high-risk, high-volatility territory. A $550K raise with a $243.9K initial market cap means extremely low float—a tiny circulating supply with most tokens locked or held by team/investors.
This structure creates wild price swings. A few thousand dollars of buy pressure can pump the price significantly. Similarly, modest sell pressure can crash it.
For builders, projects like this represent crypto's gambling layer. They're not infrastructure plays or long-term holds. They're meme coins with a fun interface, designed for traders who understand the game and size positions accordingly.
There's nothing wrong with this category—crypto needs fun, speculative plays alongside serious infrastructure. But let's be clear about what MemeMakerFun is: entertainment with upside potential, not a protocol you're building your portfolio around.
If you engage with these microcaps, the builder mindset is: treat it like a lottery ticket. Invest an amount you can afford to lose entirely. If it 10xs, great. If it goes to zero, it doesn't materially affect your broader strategy.
GiantAI: Riding the AI Narrative Wave
November 3, 2025

Raise: $800K | Initial Market Cap: $550K
AI + crypto is the narrative of 2024-2025. Everyone's building AI agents, AI-powered protocols, AI-enhanced everything. GiantAI is riding that wave.
The $800K raise suggests investor confidence in the concept. The $550K initial market cap indicates tight supply at launch—again, a recipe for volatility.
From a builder's perspective, AI x crypto has genuine potential but also massive hype. The legitimate question is: does this project do something meaningful that requires blockchain, or is AI just marketing language wrapped around a token?
Real AI x crypto projects solve problems like:
Decentralized compute for training modelsTrustless AI agent coordinationVerifiable AI inference on-chainToken-incentivized data contribution for model training

If GiantAI tackles one of those hard problems, it could have legs. If it's just "we have an AI chatbot and a token," it's riding hype without substance.
The early price action will be driven by speculation. The long-term outcome will be driven by whether the team ships real AI x crypto value.
AdixAI: Stronger Raise, Similar Questions
November 7, 2025

Raise: $2.45M | Initial Market Cap: $600K
AdixAI raised nearly $2.5M—significantly more than the other TGEs this week. That suggests either stronger investor confidence, better team credentials, or more convincing product demos. Probably some combination.
The $600K initial market cap with a $2.45M raise is an aggressive structure. It means early investors got in at valuations well below the launch market cap, creating potential sell pressure if they want to take profits quickly.
For builders assessing AdixAI, the key question is: what did they do with that $2.45M? Did they build a team capable of shipping consistently? Did they develop actual product? Or did most of it go into token launch marketing and exchange listings?
The AI category is crowded. Standing out requires either breakthrough technology, exceptional execution, or community building that creates genuine loyalty. AdixAI's larger raise gives them resources to pursue those outcomes, but also creates higher expectations.
Gambit Markets: DeFi's Ongoing Experiment
November 7, 2025

Raise: $300K | Initial Market Cap: $1.35M
Gambit Markets enters the perpetually competitive DeFi space with a modest $300K raise and $1.35M initial market cap.
DeFi is simultaneously the most proven crypto vertical (billions in TVL, real revenue, actual users) and the most challenging to break into as a new entrant (dominant players, network effects, liquidity fragmentation).
For a new DeFi protocol to succeed in 2025, you need either:
A genuinely novel mechanism that solves real problemsA significant technical improvement (better UX, cheaper transactions, faster finality)A community or narrative that drives liquidity even without technical advantagesIntegration with a growing ecosystem that lacks DeFi infrastructure
Gambit's $300K raise suggests lean operation and capital efficiency. Their $1.35M market cap is modest by DeFi standards, which could work in their favor—less pressure to immediately compete with giants, more room to find a niche.
The builder's view: DeFi is infrastructure. It needs to work reliably under stress. It needs to handle millions in TVL without bugs or exploits. It needs liquidity that doesn't evaporate during volatility.
Gambit will be judged not on initial hype but on whether traders actually use their protocol when market conditions get interesting. That's the test every DeFi project ultimately faces.
The Pattern Beneath the Events
Step back from individual unlocks and TGEs and a pattern emerges: crypto is still in its infrastructure-building phase, but with much more sophistication than previous cycles.
The unlocks this week represent projects at various stages of maturity—from EigenLayer's infrastructure ambitions to Cheelee's consumer experiments. Each unlock is a test of whether the value proposition has legs beyond initial token distribution.
The TGEs represent new teams entering the arena with different strategies: microcap gambles, AI narrative plays, capital-efficient builds, DeFi infrastructure attempts. Some will succeed wildly. Most will fade. A few will iterate into something meaningful over time.
For builders, the lesson is the same across both categories: tokens are tools, not products. The unlock schedule doesn't determine success—product-market fit does. The token launch doesn't determine longevity—execution does.
What Builders Watch While Traders React
Traders will watch these events for short-term moves. Where's the dip to buy? Where's the pump to sell? How can I capture volatility?
Builders watch different metrics:
For Unlocks:
Does development activity slow or accelerate post-unlock?Do key team members hold or exit?Does the community grow more toxic or more committed?Are partnerships still being announced?Is the roadmap still being executed?
For TGEs:
Does the team keep shipping after launch hype fades?Do users actually adopt the product or just speculate on the token?Is treasury being deployed responsibly?Are community incentives sustainable or extractive?Does the protocol solve a real problem or chase narratives?
These metrics don't move fast. They can't be day-traded. But over quarters and years, they're what separates projects that compound value from projects that were always just tokens with roadmaps attached.
The Opportunity in Others' Panic
Token unlocks create fear. Large dilution events make traders nervous. They sell preemptively. They avoid projects with upcoming unlocks. They wait for "the dust to settle."
This creates opportunity for those with longer time horizons. If a project is genuinely building something valuable, unlock-driven dips are gift entries. The circulating supply increases, sure—but so does distribution. Tokens move from early investors (who might have been waiting years to exit) to new holders who are buying at current valuations because they believe in current execution.
Similarly, TGEs create FOMO and subsequent crashes. The first few hours or days are usually chaos—wild wicks, bot manipulation, early investor exits. Then reality sets in. The question becomes: is there actual demand beneath the speculation?
For patient capital, the answer emerges weeks or months post-launch, not in the first 24 hours. That's when you see if daily active users are growing. If TVL is accumulating. If the community is engaged beyond token price. If the team is shipping updates consistently.
Building vs. Trading: Different Games, Different Timeframes
The beauty of crypto is it accommodates both builders and traders. These aren't opposites—they're symbiotic. Traders provide liquidity that makes markets function. Builders create the value that makes trading interesting.
But they play different games on different timeframes.
Traders think in candles: 15-minute, hourly, daily charts. They care about momentum, volume, technical patterns. An unlock is a volatility event to position around.
Builders think in quarters and years. They care about development milestones, user adoption, partnership traction, protocol maturity. An unlock is a liquidity event that matters only insofar as it affects their ability to attract talent or sustain operations.
This week's unlocks and TGEs will generate price action that traders will capture or get wrecked by. But the real outcomes—which projects become infrastructure and which fade into obscurity—won't be determined by any single week's events.
They'll be determined by teams that keep building regardless of token price, regardless of unlock volatility, regardless of whether the market is paying attention.
The Builder's Advantage
Here's the secret advantage builders have over pure speculators: we know which metrics actually matter.
When a project has a major unlock and the price tanks 30%, traders panic. Builders check GitHub commits, active developer count, and partnership pipeline. If those metrics are still strong, the price dip is noise.
When a new token launches and pumps 10x in 48 hours, traders celebrate. Builders check user retention, transaction volume beyond speculation, and whether the product roadmap is being followed. If those metrics are weak, the price pump is borrowed time.
This isn't moral superiority. It's just different goals. Traders want to be right about price direction over days or weeks. Builders want to be right about value creation over years.
Both are valid. But they require different mindsets and different metrics.
The Week Ahead: What Actually Matters
So as this week's token events unfold, here's what actually matters:
For EigenLayer: Does the restaking infrastructure continue attracting serious protocols, or does momentum stall?
For consumer plays like Coca and Cheelee: Are users staying for the product or just the tokens?
For the TGE launches: Do teams ship features in month two, or does activity flatline post-launch?
For AI plays like GiantAI and AdixAI: Is there real AI x crypto innovation, or just AI marketing on top of standard tokens?
For DeFi plays like Gambit: Can they attract liquidity and users in a crowded market?
The token events are just markers on a longer timeline. They create short-term volatility and opportunity. But the real story unfolds in the months after—when the hype fades and only the building remains.

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The best builders never panic during unlocks because they know something speculators don't: if you're building real value, token schedules are just dates on a calendar, not threats to the mission.