Expanding the circulating supply can seem frightening in the short term for a straightforward reason: it increases the number of tokens available for sale today, even if the protocol's actual use is being developed for the future. This timing difference often leads to temporary price pressure, not due to a weakening product, but because the market is absorbing new supply.
For #APRO the more critical consideration is what this increased supply is financing and making possible. When expansion is linked to ecosystem incentives, integrations, node participation, or wider oracle use, the market is essentially observing APRO cover its distribution costs as it aims to establish lasting utility. This phase is seldom easy in the moment, yet it's frequently how networks evolve from being held to being actively used.
In the short run, supply increases can complicate underlying narratives, slow down momentum, and favor patience over haste. Over the long term, if APRO's oracle activity continues to grow in importance—with more data sources, more real settlement transactions, and more protocols depending on it—then tokens begin to function less as pure speculative assets and more as claims on value within a functioning system.
Therefore, the immediate pressure doesn't tell the entire story. It represents the difficulty of a transition: moving from pricing based on scarcity to demand driven by utility. The market typically recognizes the initial phase more quickly than the latter.
