While everyone watches the Fed minutes tonight, another kind of pressure is hitting the market this week: new supply. Between October 5 and 11, about $1.11 billion of tokens are scheduled to unlock (BeInCrypto estimate), in the middle of a red day where BTC sits near $84K. Here's who unlocks what, and which ones actually matter.

1) The big one: Hyperliquid, Oct 6

• 3.75M $HYPE released, about $336M at today's ~$89.50.

• That's only ~0.8% of the 474.83M HYPE already released.

• Key detail: the team said the whole batch goes to one institutional buyer. So it isn't fresh supply dumped on the order book, it's a pre-arranged sale.

• HYPE today: -4.4% in 24h, -1.6% over 7 days.

2) Ethena, Oct 5 (already done)

• 171.88M $ENA unlocked, about $40M at ~$0.233.

• 93.75M to core contributors, 78.13M to investors, about 1.88% of released supply.

• ENA: -3.7% in 24h, about -12% over 7 days. The weakest chart of the group.

3) The ones that look small but aren't

• STABLE, Oct 8: 888.89M tokens, only ~$24M at ~$0.027, but that's about 3.3% of its circulating supply in one day (circulating goes to ~27.73B).

• MOVE, Oct 9: 162.67M tokens, ~$1.5M at ~$0.0092, yet about 3.6% of circulating (to ~4.66B).

• APT, Oct 11: 11.31M tokens, ~$8.6M, only ~0.64% of released supply.

• AERO and BABY also add supply this week.

4) How to read an unlock

• The dollar value is the headline. The % of circulating supply is what moves the price.

• Who receives matters: team and investor tranches can be sold, a pre-sold block to one buyer usually can't hit the market the same way.

• Markets often price the unlock in advance. A coin that already dropped before the date sometimes bounces after it.

Why it matters

On a day with $546M of liquidations and ETF outflows, extra supply is one more reason alts lag BTC. The biggest number this week (HYPE) may be the least dangerous one, while small-cap unlocks of 3%+ of supply are the ones to watch.

Do you check the unlock calendar before buying an alt, or only the chart? 👇

Sources: BeInCrypto via Gate News, Digital Asset calendar, Binance spot and CoinGecko prices (~13:40 Moscow time). Not financial advice.

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