Impermanent loss is one of those quiet, lurking risks in DeFi that many new liquidity providers don’t fully grasp until they feel it and by then, it's already taken a bite out of their yield. It happens when you provide two assets to a liquidity pool, like STON and USDT, and one asset moves in price more than the other. The result? You might end up with less value than if you’d simply held both tokens in your wallet.

Now here’s where things get interesting. While most DeFi platforms acknowledge impermanent loss as “part of the game,” very few actually try to protect users from it. But that’s exactly what STON is doing and it’s surprisingly effective.

Over the past month, STON took a bold step and distributed 1,033 STON tokens (around $10,000 in value) directly to users who had provided liquidity in the STON/USDT v2 pool. Not as an incentive. Not as a bribe for sticking around. But as a way to offset losses those users might have experienced from market volatility. And it was all automatic no staking, no claiming, no interface gymnastics. Just real-time value returned to the people supporting the protocol’s depth and stability.

That alone is a meaningful shift in how we think about user alignment in DeFi. Liquidity providers aren’t just passive participants they’re the backbone of every decentralized exchange. Rewarding them while also shielding them from known structural risks like impermanent loss is a step forward in making this space more sustainable, and more human.

This is the kind of innovation we need more of in Web3 practical, protective, and quietly powerful. DeFi should reward courage not punish participation.

STON’s proactive protection against impermanent loss isn’t just innovation; it’s leadership.

Join the movement redefining what it means to be a liquidity provider.

Provide with confidence. Earn with protection. Grow with STON fi.