The cryptocurrency market will welcome a wave of tokens worth approximately $666.4 million in the third week of December 2025. Major projects, including LayerZero (ZRO), Arbitrum (ARB), and Sei (SEI), will release token supplies over the next seven days.
These unlocks could increase short-term volatility and influence price movements across the market. So, here’s a breakdown of what to watch in each project.
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1. LayerZero (ZRO)
- Unlock Date: December 20
- Number of Tokens to be 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 primary goal is to facilitate seamless cross-chain communication. Thus, it enables decentralized applications (dApps) to interact across multiple blockchains without relying on traditional bridging models.
The team will release 25.71 million tokens on December 20, valued at around $38.31 million. The stack accounts for 6.79% of the released supply.
ZRO Crypto Token Unlock in December. Source: TokenomistLayerZero will award 13.42 million altcoins to strategic partners. Core contributors will get 10.63 million ZRO. Lastly, 1.67 million ZRO are for tokens repurchased by the team.
2. Arbitrum (ARB)
- Unlock Date: December 16
- Number of Tokens to be Unlocked: 92.65 million ARB (0.93% of Total Supply)
- Current Circulating Supply: 5.6 billion ARB
- Total supply: 10 billion ARB
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Arbitrum is a Layer-2 scaling solution built for Ethereum (ETH). It enhances transaction speed and reduces costs while maintaining the security of the Ethereum network. The blockchain achieves this by utilizing ‘optimistic rollups,’ which process transactions off-chain and submit them to the Ethereum mainnet for validation.
On December 16, Arbitrum will unlock 92.65 million tokens into the market. The tokens are worth $19.3 million and represent 1.90% of the current released supply.
ARB Crypto Token Unlock in December. Source: TokenomistArbitrum will award 56.13 million ARB from the unlocked supply to the team, future team, and advisors. Moreover, investors will gain 36.52 million tokens.
3. Sei (SEI)
- Unlock Date: December 15
- Number of Tokens to be 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 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 15. The tokens represent 1.08% of the released supply. Furthermore, the team will receive the entire unlocked supply.
SEI Crypto Token Unlock in December. Source: TokenomistIn addition to these, other prominent unlocks that investors can look out for in the third week of December include Lista DAO (LISTA), ZKsync (ZK), ApeCoin (APE), and more, contributing to the total market-wide releases.
Source: https://beincrypto.com/crypto-token-unlocks-in-the-third-week-of-december/
