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Overlooked Signal: Falling Token Unlocks Are Meeting Rising ETF Demand! Most coverage this month focuses on individual token unlocks, $HYPE, $ENA, $PROVE, $SUI, $IP, $TRUMP, $YZY, and $KAITO all have scheduled releases in August. But the more interesting story is the trend line: total unlock supply has fallen three straight months, from $580M in June to $376M in July to roughly $323M in August. Dilution pressure across the market is quietly easing. At the same time, $ETH spot ETFs pulled in $365 million in July, their strongest month since launch. That's a supply-side contraction meeting a demand-side acceleration, a combination that typically gets less attention than headline price moves but tends to matter more for medium-term positioning. The risk: this dynamic isn't uniform. $SOL-ecosystem tokens like $TRUMP still carry sizable linear unlocks relative to circulating supply, and cliff-unlock assets like $YZY and $PROVE can see short-term volatility regardless of the broader trend. Declining aggregate unlocks don't protect individual tokens from concentrated sell pressure on their specific release dates. If institutional inflows keep outpacing new supply into September, does that shift matter more than short-term price action, or is it still too early to call?