Lots of people talking about $SOL's big unlock on Jan 7. I'm a crypto professional who's been following the project, reading the transparency reports, and have close friends who work at trading desks and have been accumulating SOL. I'm done building my position, so here goes

1. The unlock isn't as big as people are making it out to be. Not all of those tokens are entering circulation at once. It's still big, but about half of those tokens are controlled by the Solana Foundation and will not enter the circulating supply.
2. People sharing that graph from Binance Research think it's going to be the full 442m hitting circulation which is ~10.5x current supply. The reality is it will be about 202m hitting circulation, which is ~5.3x current supply. It's still a lot, but the FUD is just off.
3. The market and everyone holding SOL has known about this unlock for almost a year. SOL price has gone as high as $5 and the OTC markets have been incredibly active. SOL has been on almost every OTC Telegram group list for around 8 months.
4. Back around April-May, it was trading at a steep 75% discount to spot. Lately it's traded around 5-10% discount, which is pretty normal for any lockup. Basically the weak hands have already been traded out.
5. SOL futures on FTX and Binance have been liquid for months. FTX listed SOL futures expiring in March about a month ago. This is earlier than they usually list quarterly futures. Right now they're trading at $1.92, with spot at $1.98. Does it sound like the market is worried?
6. None of this is investment advice, and I will admit I'm heavily biased as I have accumulated the large, large majority of my portfolio in SOL. But I think over the next few days the market will start to take notice of these facts.
7. @TheCryptoDog (with >250k followers) has been tweeting this too: https://twitter.com/TheCryptoDog/status/1343675194401910784
8. The question he asks is not what if there's a big dump, but what if there is no big dump? SOL is 1/10th the fully diluted market cap of Polkadot, but has 100x the tech and, more importantly, better ecosystem growth.
9. @ProjectSerum, @AudiusProject, @terra_money, @chainlink, @circlepay, @Tether_to, @AaveAave, @compoundfinance, @CurveFinance, @Kin_Ecosystem, @akashnet_ all seemed to be betting hard on Solana in 2020. Like @TheCryptoDog I expect Solana to be the breakout token of 2021.