
Dragonfly Capital moved $2M in APEX tokens to Bybit just two weeks after unlocking them. The transfer puts the VC firm’s intentions under scrutiny.
Dragonfly Capital transferred roughly $2 million worth of APEX tokens to the Bybit exchange on July 29, on-chain analytics firm Arkham reported. The tokens had been unlocked just two weeks earlier.
The move raised the question of whether a major venture backer is taking profits or repositioning liquidity. Dragonfly had been among the earliest institutional investors in ApeX Protocol, participating in the first funding round alongside Tiger Global and Jump Trading.
Bybit is the natural destination for any APEX token sale. The project’s initial token distribution ran through Bybit Launchpad 2.0 in April 2022, giving the exchange a central role in the token’s liquidity.
At the time of the transfer, APEX was Dragonfly’s third-largest publicly tracked wallet holding, behind LIT and BGB. Moving a large position to a centralized exchange within 14 days of an unlock signals either a desire for quick cash or confidence that the current price is good enough to exit, traders said.
ApeX Protocol is a non-custodial decentralized exchange for perpetual derivatives, built on Arbitrum. Its token has a maximum supply of 1 billion, used for governance, staking, and incentives.
Dragonfly Capital closed a $650 million fund earlier this year. The firm has not commented on the transfer.
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