Unlock Concentration

Unlock concentration measures how much of a period's total unlock value sits in a single event or a small handful of them.

TradFi parallel: Like the difference between an index whose entire return comes from one mega-cap and one where it is spread across the book. The headline number is identical; what you are actually exposed to is not.

Key Takeaways

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Start with the definition: Unlock concentration measures how much of a period's total unlock value sits in a single event or a small handful of them.
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Read the governing documentation before treating a label as a supply conclusion
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Separate scheduled entitlement, contractual transferability, and actual circulating supply
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Use dated on-chain or canonical data for any amount, percentage, or event date
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A buyback, unlock, burn, or reward label does not by itself establish the net supply effect
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Remove or qualify any project-specific conclusion that cannot be reproduced from a primary source

How It Works

Unlock concentration measures how much of a period's total unlock value sits in a single event or a small handful of them.

The label alone does not establish a token's current supply impact. To evaluate unlock concentration, read the governing token documentation and contract rules, distinguish scheduled entitlement from tokens that are actually transferable or circulating, and use dated on-chain data for any quantity. Do not infer a burn, price effect, holder behavior, or release amount from the label alone.

When a claim depends on a figure, date, allocation, fee route, or prior market event, retain it only when the underlying primary document, governance record, contract state, or reproducible data snapshot is available. Otherwise state the mechanism generally and leave the project-specific conclusion out.