The cryptocurrency market will receive a wave of tokens worth approximately $666.4 million in the third week of December 2025. Major projects such as LayerZero (ZRO), Arbitrum (ARB), and sei (SEI) are scheduled to release their token supply over the next 7 days.
These unlocks can increase short-term volatility and impact market-wide price movements. So let’s take a closer look at the highlights of each project.
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1. Layer Zero (ZRO)
Unlocking date: December 20th Number of tokens unlocked: 25.71 million ZRO (2.57% of total supply) Current circulating supply: 202.6 million ZRO Total supply: 1 billion ZRO
LayerZero is an interoperability protocol that connects different blockchains. Its main purpose is to facilitate seamless cross-chain communication. Thus, decentralized applications (dApps) will be able to interact across multiple blockchains without relying on traditional bridging models.
The team plans to release 25.71 million tokens worth approximately $38.31 million on December 20th. This stack accounts for 6.79% of the released supply.
LayerZero awards 13.42 million altcoins to strategic partners. Core contributors will earn 10.63 million ZRO. Finally, 1.67 million ZRO is for tokens bought back by the team.
2. Arbitrum (ARB)
Unlocking date: December 16th Number of tokens unlocked: 92.65 million ARB (0.93% of total supply) Current circulating supply: 5.6 billion ARB Total supply: 10 billion ARB
Arbitrum is a layer 2 scaling solution built for Ethereum (ETH). Increase transaction speed and reduce costs while maintaining the security of the Ethereum network. Blockchains accomplish this by utilizing “optimistic rollups,” which process transactions off-chain and send them to the Ethereum mainnet for validation.
On December 16th, Arbitrum will bring 92.65 million tokens to the market. The token is valued at $19.3 million, representing 1.90% of the currently released supply.
Arbitrum will award ARB 56.13 million to teams, prospective teams and advisors from unlocked supplies. Additionally, investors will earn 36.52 million tokens.
3. SEI
Unlocking date: December 15th Number of tokens unlocked: 55.56 million SEI (0.55% of total supply) Current circulating supply: 6.49 billion SEI Total supply: 10 billion SEI
Sei is a layer 1 blockchain built on top of the Cosmos SDK. The network provides high-performance infrastructure for decentralized finance (DeFi) and other dApps.
Sei will unlock 55.56 million tokens worth approximately $6.98 million on December 15th. The token represents 1.08% of the released supply. Additionally, your team will receive all unlocked supplies.
In addition to these, other notable unlocks that investors can look out for in the third week of December include Lista DAO (LISTA), ZKsync (ZK), ApeCoin (APE), etc., contributing to the total market-wide releases.
