StakeStone jumps 500% before unlock; investors brace for selling pressure

StakeStone (STO) jumped 500% in a week. A major token unlock hits tomorrow, risking sell pressure.

Analyst Neel flagged fresh catalysts behind the move. StakeStone rolled out protocol v2.0 this year with gasless transactions, social login, and AI yield across 20 chains, boosting activity source, source.

The project also tied up with Trump’s World Liberty to provide cross-chain liquidity for the USD1 stablecoin. USD1’s circulating supply stands near $4.3 billion, making the flow rail meaningful for STO’s ecosystem source.

Derivatives lit up. CoinGlass shows STO’s long/short ratio above 1, derivatives volume up 500% to $3.44B, and open interest up almost 300% to $332M source.

On-chain flows turned heads. A fresh wallet pulled 25.5M STO from Binance this week, equal to 11.32% of circulating supply source.

Unlock risk looms tomorrow. CryptoRank tracks 20.17M STO (2.02% of total) unlocking, worth $18.22M at current prices and equal to 8.95% of market cap. Nearly 70% of supply remains locked source.
- Most of this tranche goes to investors; Foundation and Team also receive allocations source.
- Analyst Anti-Moon said “team and investors [are] likely pushing the price up” ahead of unlocks source.

Price last at $0.8465, +285% in 24 hours source.

Title: StakeStone (STO) soars 500% before tomorrow’s $18.22M unlock; derivatives and on-chain flows surge