Honest answer? It depends on what you are actually watching.

But here is what the doom threads leave out. Every wallet has a randomized thaw date.
The supply does not hit all at once on one calendar date. It enters the market in a continuous distributed trickle that the market absorbs day by day. Midnight specifically designed it this way to avoid the cliff events that destroy most airdrop projects.

After mainnet launches, holding NIGHT generates DUST automatically. DUST is the only way to pay for transactions on the network. You cannot buy it anywhere.
As real usage grows, demand for NIGHT to generate DUST grows with it.
The unlocks are the backdrop. The mainnet is the story. Watch what gets built. 🌑

$NIGHT