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The Biggest Token Unlocks and Emission Events to Watch Through 2026

Ranked by share of circulating float, not dollar value, because a small-dollar cliff on a thin float moves a market more than a huge emission on a deep one. For contrast, the largest dollar releases in the same window are Solana staking issuance near $146M a month and Bitcoin mining near $29M a day -- structural, not cliffs to insiders. Figures as of mid-August 2026; schedules get amended. This is research and analysis, not investment advice.

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Succinct (PROVE) -- 5 August 2026

The largest single-day supply expansion tracked anywhere in 2026: roughly 203-208M tokens against a circulating supply smaller than the release itself, about 104.17% of float and around 31.25% of max supply. Recipient split is unusually well disclosed -- roughly 83.33M to ecosystem and R&D, 73.75M to contributors, 26.25M to investors. Reported dollar value was about $34.7M.

4 pros · 4 cons

YZY -- 16 August 2026

Roughly 120.83M tokens, about 22.83% of circulating supply and around $35M, described by Tokenomist as the largest cliff release of the month by dollar value. Context matters more than the number here: this token already fell from a roughly $3B launch market cap to about $82M, with top-ten wallets holding around 93% of supply, so the release lands into an already concentrated book.

4 pros · 4 cons

OFFICIAL TRUMP (TRUMP) -- rolling daily into 2028

Not a cliff but the largest recurring release tracked: about 11.29% of circulating supply across the 3 August to 3 September 2026 window, on roughly 28.03M tokens worth around $40.4M, at a pace near 900,000 tokens a day. The recipients are the disclosed launch insiders -- CIC Digital LLC and Fight Fight Fight LLC retained 80% of total supply at launch and vest into 2028.

4 pros · 4 cons

LAB -- August 2026 window

About 26.97M tokens worth roughly $336M, around 8.63% of circulating supply. By dollar value this is the second-largest release in the August window behind Rain, and by percentage of float it is fourth on this list. Recipient breakdown is not published in the tracker data reviewed, which is worth knowing before treating the number as fully diligenced.

4 pros · 4 cons

H -- 3 August to 3 September 2026

Roughly 266.47M tokens worth about $20.31M, or around 7.92% of circulating supply, listed as a cliff rather than a linear release. Mid-sized by dollar value but high by float share, which is exactly the combination this list ranks for -- the dollar figure understates the impact when the float underneath it is small.

4 pros · 4 cons

Kaito (KAITO) -- August 2026

Roughly 32.60M tokens worth about $32.49M. This is the entry where the trackers disagree most: CoinGabbar puts it at about 7.63% of circulating supply across the month, while Tokenomist listed roughly 13.5% for the immediate cliff week. Both are cited here because the spread itself is the finding -- a float that two mainstream trackers size differently is a float worth checking yourself.

4 pros · 4 cons

Rain (RAIN) -- continuous, roughly $17M a day

The largest release on this list by dollar value and it is not a cliff at all. Roughly 44.12B tokens worth about $569M across the 3 August to 3 September window, or around 6.35% of circulating supply, released linearly at about $17.16M a day. Tokenomist ranks it second only to Bitcoin mining among daily emission sources, which is a remarkable place for a young protocol to sit.

4 pros · 4 cons

LayerZero (ZRO) -- August 2026

Roughly 25.71M tokens worth about $18.37M, listed at around 4.40% of circulating supply across the month. Tokenomist separately showed about $19.87M and 7.3% of float concentrated in a single cliff week, which is the figure that actually matters for order-book impact -- a month-averaged percentage hides how much lands on one day.

4 pros · 4 cons

Grass (GRASS) -- August 2026

A comparatively small event -- roughly $6.89M, about 3.32% of circulating supply -- included because it is the size most unlocks actually are. The headline cliffs get written up; the 3% monthly releases across dozens of DePIN and infrastructure tokens are what quietly sets the drift on a token chart, and they rarely make anybody's watchlist.

4 pros · 4 cons

Worldcoin (WLD) -- rate change 24 July 2026

The most useful entry on this list, because it is an emission event in the opposite direction. On 24 July 2026 the daily unlock rate was cut 43%, from about 5.1M to 2.9M WLD a day. Community-locked emission halved from 3.2M to 1.6M; team and investor emission fell 32%, from 1.9M to 1.3M. The August window still released about 89.97M tokens, roughly $28.38M, or 2.52% of float.

4 pros · 4 cons

Ethena (ENA) -- 5 August and 2 September 2026

A regular monthly cadence rather than a one-off: 171.88M tokens worth about $15.36M released on 5 August, with the full 3 August to 3 September window totalling roughly 212.5M tokens and $18.97M, or about 2.44% of circulating supply. The next tranche is dated 2 September 2026, and the pattern has been consistent enough to model forward with confidence.

4 pros · 4 cons

Pump.fun (PUMP) -- 12 August 2026

Named recipients make this one worth watching: 6.875 billion PUMP released on 12 August 2026, split between the development team and early investors, following a much larger 82.5 billion release in July. Across the August window the linear component ran about 7.00B tokens, roughly $14.55M, or 1.77% of circulating supply. The team-and-investor label is the part that matters.

4 pros · 4 cons

Story (IP) -- 13 August 2026

About 17.5M IP tokens, roughly 1.7% of total supply and around $3.9M, going to private investors, insiders and the community. Small by every measure on this list. It earns a place because the recipient mix is disclosed and includes private investors -- and the disclosed-recipient unlocks are the ones you can actually reason about, as opposed to a bare percentage with no attribution.

4 pros · 4 cons

Sui (SUI) -- 1 September 2026 and monthly

The model of a well-behaved schedule, and included as the contrast case. Sui releases monthly rather than in cliffs, the next tranche is dated 1 September 2026, and the tokens go to the Community Reserve for grants, validator delegation and ecosystem growth rather than to insiders. About 4.07B of 10B total supply was circulating (40.75%), with the schedule running to 2030.

4 pros · 4 cons

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