Sentient team-linked wallet shifts $11.5m SENT into fresh address

SENT3,01%
BTC-0,4%
ARKM-7,37%

Sentient’s suspected team wallet just moved 687 million SENT — around $11.52 million and 9.49% of supply — into a fresh address, putting AI-token treasury risk back in focus.
Summary

  • Suspected Sentient team multisig moves 687m SENT, or 9.49% of circulating supply
  • Transfer worth about $11.52m raises fresh questions over token supply overhang
  • Move follows months of volatile SENT trading as AI-linked tokens stay in focus

A suspected Sentient (SENT) team multi-signature wallet has transferred 687 million SENT, worth around $11.52 million, into a new address, on-chain data from Arkham Intelligence shows.

According to Arkham’s monitoring dashboard, the funds moved from address 0x5b54…9C0f to 0xF9D7…262A roughly 20 minutes before the alert was published, marking one of the largest single shifts in SENT supply since the token’s launch.

Data from CoinMarketCap indicates that the 687 million SENT represents about 9.49% of the token’s 7.23 billion circulating supply, underscoring how concentrated holdings in team-linked wallets remain.

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At current prices near $0.017 per SENT, the transfer’s implied value aligns with Arkham’s roughly $11.52 million estimate, although SENT has traded as high as $0.0231 in recent weeks amid renewed interest in AI-related tokens.

Arkham describes its platform as “a comprehensive blockchain intelligence platform designed to make understanding blockchain activity easier for its users,” a toolset that has increasingly been used by traders to track large team and whale movements across tokens.

The firm has previously flagged activity in long-dormant Bitcoin wallets moving more than $250 million in BTC, showing how similar alerts can precede shifts in market sentiment when large holders reposition.

For SENT holders, the key question is whether the 687 million tokens have been repositioned for custody, internal restructuring or eventual distribution, since any sizable redeposit to exchanges could increase perceived sell pressure.

SENT’s circulating supply of 7.23 billion sits against a total supply of 34.35 billion, leaving significant headroom for future unlocks or transfers from team and treasury wallets, a dynamic that has been a recurring risk factor across the AI-token sector.

Recent coverage on crypto.news of Arkham-tracked whale moves, including a dormant Bitcoin whale moving $250 million in BTC and activity around Satoshi-linked addresses, has shown how on-chain forensics can front-run major flows in both blue-chip and niche assets.

As Arkhamnotes in a broader guide to blockchain intelligence, on-chain monitoring is now a core part of trading, compliance and even law enforcement workflows, and large internal transfers like today’s Sentient move will likely remain under close watch from market participants.

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