Sui Network (SUI Coin) will soon unlock its token worth approximately $300 million. This will inflate the circulating supply of Sui tokenomics and SUI. Also, the move is part of a monthly unlocking programme that dilutes investors’ holdings. Crypto analyst Vinicius Barbosa discusses this event and its implications.
Attention to this date: Hundreds of millions of dollars of SUI Coin will flood the market!
Tokenomist tracks and reports Sui (SUI Coin) cliff-unlock events. For example, on 1 December, Sui’s largest unlock event to date took place. This was also driven by SUI’s continued price increase. In this event, Sui released 64.19 million tokens worth $224 million. If SUI is traded close to its current level, this phenomenon will be repeated on the first day of 2025. Indeed, the usual 64.19 million SUI Coin unlock currently has a nominal value of $ 274.11 million. This would artificially increase Sui’s circulating supply and market capitalisation by 2.19% after the token unlock.
Interestingly, there are still 1.85 billion SUI locked in contracts that have been vested with a planned unlock. More than 5.22 billion locked SUI coins, categorised as ‘TBD locked’ by Tokenomist, are yet to be scheduled.

There are about $600 million worth of token-unlocks next week!
Tokenomist’s ‘Cliff Unlocks’ data also shows that 43 altcoin projects will unlock $581.95 million worth of tokens in the next seven days. Other projects with significant unlocks are Optimism (OP) and ImmutableX (IMX) with $60.80 million and $36.04 million, respectively. Still, SUI Coin accounts for about half of all cliff-unlocks for the coming week. In other words, it represents the largest share in these events.

SUI Coin tokenomics and market impact
Sui Series A and B investors receive the most proceeds, each receiving over 19 million SUI, 61% of the total. Mysten Labs will receive the remaining 25.03 million. The project allocated 12.63 million for the community. It also allocated 10.34 million for early contributors and 2.07 million for its treasury. Sui Network has so far unlocked 29% of the maximum 10 billion SUI Coin supply. At $4.27 per token, Sui has a fully diluted value (FDV) of $42.70 billion. This is similar to the circulating market capitalisation of Circle’s USDC.

As you have been following from Kriptokoin.com, every time the network unlocks more tokens, it increases the potential selling pressure. It also artificially inflates the market value. According to the laws of economics, an increased supply requires a similar or better increase in demand to sustain its prices. Sui’s largest cliff-unlock event to date therefore represents an immediate threat to SUI Coin investors. It also dilutes the value of their holdings. Meanwhile, Sui allows Mysten Labs and Series A/B investors to stake their locked tokens. It has a unique tokenomics in this respect. These positions generate asymmetric liquid rewards against other staking investors.
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