Token Unlocks This Week: 5 Crypto Releases to Watch, Aug 17–20, 2026

Top Token Unlocks This Week: Major Crypto Releases Aug 17–20, 2026 Five more notable token unlocks land this week, ranging from an NFT-brand-turned-Layer-2 token to LayerZero, one of crypto's most widely used cross-chain messaging protocols. Together they release well over $37 million in newly circulating tokens. Here's what's unlocking, who receives it, and what it could mean for each token's market. Token Unlocks This Week: Full Data Table Date Token Tokens Unlocked % of Max Supply USD Value Aug 17, 2026 Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) 703.50M 0.79% ~$4.19M Aug 19, 2026 ZKsync (ZK) 173.41M 0.83% ~$1.30M Aug 20, 2026 Kaito (KAITO) 32.60M 3.26% ~$11.06M Aug 20, 2026 Lombard (BARD) 36.91M — ~$36.91M Aug 20, 2026 LayerZero (ZRO) 25.71M 2.57% ~$19.66M Who Gets What: Allocation Breakdown Pudgy Penguins (PENGU): NFT Brand Token's Team and Company Release Pudgy Penguins started as an NFT collection and has since grown into a consumer brand spanning physical toys, licensing deals, and Abstract, an Ethereum Layer 2 built by its parent company, Igloo Inc. PENGU functions as the social, utility, and governance token across that ecosystem. Source: CryptoRank – Token unlock schedule and allocation data. Data verified on the date of writing and may change as projects update their vesting schedules. Source:Pudgy Penguins cryptorank data On August 17, the network unlocked 703.50M PENGU, worth roughly $4.19 million, split between Team (2.70%, +427.67M tokens) and Company (2.70%, +275.83M tokens). With 77.8% of total max supply already unlocked, PENGU is by far the most unlocked token in this week's group, meaning most of its insider allocations have already worked their way through the market. ZKsync (ZK): A Modest Release Split Between Investors and Team ZKsync is an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling network built on zero-knowledge rollup technology, letting transactions process off-chain before settling back to Ethereum for security. ZK is used for governance and network incentives across the ecosystem. Source: CryptoRank – Token unlock schedule and allocation data. Data verified on the date of writing and may change as projects update their vesting schedules. Source:ZKsync cryptorank data On August 19, ZKsync unlocked 173.41M ZK, worth about $1.30 million, split between investors (2.50%, +103.87M tokens) and the team (2.44%, +69.54M tokens). At just 32.7% of total supply unlocked so far, ZKsync still has the majority of its token supply locked, meaning future unlocks will likely carry more relative weight than this week's release. Kaito (KAITO): AI Research Platform's Creator-Heavy Unlock Kaito is an AI-powered information platform that indexes crypto news, social posts, and research to surface market intelligence, built around what it calls an InfoFi (information finance) model. KAITO powers governance, staking, and rewards for contributors across the platform. Source: CryptoRank – Token unlock schedule and allocation data.