There is no single right answer to what to do when a token unlock is coming, so this page gives you the questions instead. Establish which lock is expiring, what share of liquidity it covers, and who can withdraw it. Then work through extend, exit, and hold as three sets of questions.
Nothing here is a recommendation to buy, sell, or keep anything. Locksley reads mechanisms; the decision is yours, and it depends on facts about your position that no page can know.
What to do when a token unlock is coming: establish the facts
Most unlock panic comes from reasoning about a lock nobody has actually read. Three facts settle what kind of event this is, and all three are public on Robinhood Chain.
Which object is unlocking. A liquidity lock releasing a pool position and a vesting schedule releasing team tokens are different events with different consequences. The first affects the money you would sell into; the second affects supply that could be sold at you. A schedule's first release date is its unlock cliff, and a token can have both timelines running independently.
What share it covers. A release of, say, 90% of a pool and a release of 4% of one are the same headline and different arithmetic. Read the locked share against total pool depth.
When, exactly, and who holds it. The release timestamp and the owner address are both readable. The method is in read a liquidity lock in 60 seconds, and near-term releases across the chain are listed on expiring locks.
Extend: the questions for a project
Extending is only available to whoever owns the position, so this section is for teams rather than holders.
What was the original duration meant to signal, and does a shorter renewal say something different? What does the treasury need the liquidity for, if anything, and is that need real this quarter or hypothetical? Is a partial relock honest about the intention, or does it read as a full lock at a glance while leaving most of the pool mobile? Can the extension be written before the current release date rather than after, so the position is never withdrawable in between?
The mechanics themselves are unchanged from the first lock: it applies to the Uniswap v3 position directly. Team Finance is our sister product, so take this with the disclosure — a liquidity lock costs $150 per use as of August 2026, plus gas in ETH, and projects can lock liquidity on Robinhood Chain whenever they choose. The full mechanics of the release moment are in what happens when a lock expires.
Exit: the questions a holder can answer
Exiting has a cost that is knowable in advance, and most people discover it only while selling.
How deep is the pool relative to your position? A sale large against pool depth moves the price against you as it executes — that is price impact, and it is arithmetic, not bad luck. Would splitting the sale across smaller transactions reduce it, and does the gas cost of doing so eat the saving? What is the pool likely to look like if you are not the only holder watching the same public date? And where would the proceeds go — the routes and their costs are in sell tokens and cash out.
One more question that people skip: if the answer is that the exit is expensive at any size, that is a fact about the position you already hold, and it will still be true next month.
Hold: the questions a holder can answer
Holding through an unlock is a position, not the absence of one, so it deserves the same interrogation.
What would you want to see in the week after the release date — a relock, an unchanged pool balance, something else? How would you check it, and when? What would change your mind, stated before the date rather than after? Is the size of the position one you would open today at today's price, knowing the release timestamp is behind rather than ahead? And what is the honest reason for holding: a view about the token, or reluctance to realize a loss?
None of those have a right answer. They have your answer, and writing it down before the date is the whole technique.
What no page can tell you
Not what will happen on the release date. Not whether the owner will withdraw. Not what the price will do, before or after.
What is knowable is the calendar. This week's unlocks lists what releases across Robinhood Chain in the next seven days — —pending positions as of —pending, per Locksley's contract reads. Reading it before the week starts is the difference between deciding and reacting.
And where a page shows nothing at all: "No lock found" means we found none — not that none exists. Locksley does not yet index every locker. An empty panel is a prompt to check the pool on the explorer, not evidence either way.
Frequently asked questions
Should I sell before a token unlock?
That is not a question anyone can answer for you, and Locksley does not give that kind of guidance. What can be established beforehand is the arithmetic: the share of liquidity releasing, the depth of the pool relative to your position, the price impact of an exit at that size, and the exact timestamp. Those facts are public, and they are what the decision rests on.
Does a relock reset the original lock?
A relock writes a new release timestamp to the position, so the practical effect is a new lock covering whatever share is locked. It does not erase the history — the previous lock and its expiry remain readable on-chain. An extension written before the original expiry keeps the position continuously non-withdrawable, which is stronger than relocking after a gap.
How far ahead should I be watching unlock dates?
The release timestamp is readable on the day you buy, so the honest answer is from the start rather than from any particular distance out. Locksley lists near-term releases across Robinhood Chain sorted by proximity, and every token page carries its own release date and countdown. Watching early costs nothing and removes the surprise entirely.
“No lock found” means we found none, not that none exists: we do not index other lockers yet, and it is never a claim about the project.
What happens when a liquidity lock expires
What happens when a liquidity lock expires on Robinhood Chain: nothing automatic — the pool position simply becomes withdrawable by whoever owns it.
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What happens when a liquidity lock expires on Robinhood Chain: nothing automatic — the pool position simply becomes withdrawable by whoever owns it.
See it liveWhat happens when a liquidity lock expires
What happens when a liquidity lock expires on Robinhood Chain: nothing automatic — the pool position simply becomes withdrawable by whoever owns it.
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