{"id":142162,"date":"2023-09-01T20:10:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=142162"},"modified":"2023-09-01T20:10:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:40:07","slug":"lido-set-to-complete-final-token-unlock-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/lido-set-to-complete-final-token-unlock-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Lido Set To Complete Final Token Unlock – Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Leading Liquid Staking Protocol Had Sold 10M LDO To Dragonfly Last Year To Weather Bear Market<\/p>\n

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Tokenholders generally dread an increase in the circulating supply of an asset since it usually leads to added selling pressure.<\/p>\n

However, tomorrow\u2019s unlock of LDO, the governance token of Lido Finance, is its final one, meaning that nearly all 1B LDO tokens will be on the open market, except for a tiny fraction that will vest to early investors until April 2024.<\/p>\n

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Lido has $13.8B<\/a> in total value locked (TVL), making it the largest DeFi protocol. The protocol dominates the liquid staking space with its stETH token commanding a 75% market share.<\/p>\n

Fiskantes<\/a>, a partner at Zee Prime Capital, thinks the unlock is positive for LDO holders. \u201cIn general, it clears the supply from people who want to get rid of the position,\u201d he told The Defiant.<\/p>\n

The tokens being unlocked stem from a deal that venture firm Dragonfly struck<\/a> with Lido\u2019s decentralized autonomous organization (DAO<\/a>) last August.<\/p>\n

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LDO Vesting Schedule<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Token unlocks often make traders reconsider buying in, as additions to supply tend to depress prices, usually from early investors cashing out. Once a token\u2019s supply is fully unlocked, that selling pressure should theoretically reduce since any party that wishes to sell can do so.<\/p>\n

The situation with LDO is somewhat unique in that the DAO sold tokens in order to bolster its treasury in case of an extended bear market. Typically, unlocks are agreed upon by investors at early stages of the project, rather than direct sales from the DAO at later stages.<\/p>\n

LSTfi<\/h2>\n

Lido has been the central player in the burgeoning \u201cLSTfi<\/a>\u201d sector, which involves financial products built atop the tokens representing staked ETH on platforms like Lido.<\/p>\n

LDO has a market capitalization of $1.42B at the time of writing, down roughly 50% from its 2023 peak.<\/p>\n

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LDO Price Over The Last Year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To Fiskantes, the unlock in itself isn\u2019t necessarily bullish. \u201c[It] depends on token ownership distribution post-unlock,\u201d he said. Major holders may not sell right away, but that doesn\u2019t mean they don\u2019t plan to sell.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is still [a] possibility that the big holders will dump anytime since there is no more lockup,\u201d he said, adding that if a trader cares about short-term price action, they should monitor major holders\u2019 wallets.<\/p>\n

Fiskantes concluded by saying that an investor\u2019s considerations should be different if taking a longer-term view. \u201cYou should derive your opinion based on projects\u2019 traction, market share, value capture, and [the] team\u2019s ability to innovate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leading Liquid Staking Protocol Had Sold 10M LDO To Dragonfly Last Year To Weather Bear Market Tokenholders generally dread an increase in the circulating supply of an asset since it usually leads to added selling pressure. However, tomorrow\u2019s unlock of LDO, the governance token of Lido Finance, is its final one, meaning that nearly all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-142162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146727,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142162\/revisions\/146727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}