Information from WhaleStats reveals that Lido Finance’s token $LDO is the third most bought token by the highest 100 whales within the final 24 hours. The buying spree comes as LDO’s value falls by greater than 6% within the final 24 hours. Nonetheless, its value has gone up by greater than 150% within the final 7 days.
The downward value motion could possibly be on account of Lido’s treasury diversification proposal to promote 2% of the LDO for $1.45.
Lido’s Main Strikes
Lido’s treasury diversification proposal goals to realize long-term stability for the Lido DAO. The proposal asks to promote 2% of LDO, which is roughly 20 million LDO, from the DAO treasury. The sale can be at a 7-day time-weighted common value with a 50% premium. The proposal believes that this transfer can afford the corporate roughly two years of working runway.
The TWAP calculation carried out by means of Coin Gecko reveals the value of sale to be $1.45.
The proposal additionally reveals that Dragonfly Capital, a crypto funding agency, has expressed its curiosity to guide the spherical. The proposal believes that Dragonfly may also help with the event of Lido because the market-leading answer for liquid staking.
The proposal highlights that the sale can be made for $DAI within the treasury.
Lido can also be launching stETH on Layer-2 options like Arbitrum. Arbitrum took to Twitter to assist the migration. For the preliminary deployment, Lido will solely assist wstETH, which is the wrapped, non-rebasing model of Lido’s ETH.
Whereas LDO’s value decreased by nearly 7% within the final 24 hours, it additionally elevated by greater than 150% within the final 7 days.
The Whales Maintain Lido
Not solely is LDO the third most bought token by the whales, however it’s also 4th by buying and selling quantity. WhaleStats knowledge additionally revealed that ETH whale Saitama introduced 11,999,995 $LDO price $17,519,994.
The highest 100 whales at present maintain greater than $20 million price of $LDO.
