#mantra Community Insights & Market Sentiment

OM upgrade claims have now opened for the eighth batch, with a deadline of December 2. The most discussed question in the market is “What percentage has been claimed?” But that figure does little to explain the price. What really determines the supply curve is something else: how the unclaimed balance will ultimately be handled once the deadline passes.

First, let’s look at the nature of the event itself. Opening claims batch by batch essentially slices a one-time token release into smaller portions, spreading the impact over several weeks instead of concentrating it all on a single day. This is both a technical measure and a psychological one. But batching only changes the timing; it doesn’t change the total amount. How the process concludes is what matters.

The first thing to watch is the three possible paths for the unclaimed balance. It could be burned directly, reducing the circulating supply; returned to the treasury or an ecosystem pool, which would defer selling pressure rather than eliminate it; or made available through another claim window, which would simply postpone the issue and likely be read by the market as a sign of “insufficient demand.” These three paths imply very different valuations. So December 2 isn’t the end of this story—it’s the day the rules are revealed. Until those rules are announced, any bullish take based on “strong claim progress” is just speculation.

The second factor is the trust discount left by history. The nearly 90% single-day plunge on April 13 this year changed OM’s valuation narrative from a “narrative premium” to a “trust discount.” Since then, whenever anything happens at the token level, holders’ first reaction is to ask: Is this a recovery, or another distribution? Against this backdrop, transparency in the upgrade process is worth far more than speed. Clearly stating how the “unclaimed portion will be handled” would do more to stabilize expectations than opening three more claim batches.

The third factor is the changing token supply structure. Claiming doesn’t mean selling, but it does turn “nominally locked holdings” into “actual holdings that can be moved.” The opening of the eighth batch means allocations from the first seven batches have been reaching holders in succession, and the amount available to circulate is steadily growing. The real test of supply pressure won’t come on the deadline itself, but two to four weeks afterward. By then, the announcement about the unclaimed balance will be out, and the newly movable tokens will have gone through a round of absorption. Only then will the price give a genuine response.

The risk is straightforward: if the official team continues to say nothing about the unclaimed balance, that silence is information in itself. It usually means those tokens will be deferred or handled another way, and the market will directly discount the uncertainty around the circulating supply. In that scenario, no matter how impressive the on-chain “claim rate” looks, it isn’t bullish.

My view is simple: for now, prioritizing announcements about how the unclaimed balance will be handled is more important than watching the price action. Clear rules provide the basis for the discount to narrow; vague rules mean any rebound is just a recovery in sentiment, not in fundamentals. Don’t build a position on assumptions that no one has verified yet.

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