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On May 2, 2025, Binance announced that STO was the 17th project to join the Binance HODLer Airdrops. Between April 27 and 29, if users used their BNB to sign up for Simpler Earn or On-Chain Yields products, they had the chance to receive STO airdrops. In total, 15 million STO tokens were distributed, which makes up 1.5% of the total supply of tokens.
STO was given the Seed Tag, which made it possible to trade the tokens with USDT, USDC, BNB, FDUSD, and TRY.
What is StakeStone?
StakeStone is a blockchain protocol, an omnichain liquidity ecosystem, designed to make moving assets between blockchains easy and smooth. This system tackles common issues in decentralized finance (DeFi), such as when assets get stuck in separate networks, making it hard to transfer or earn rewards.
Main features of StakeStone
STONE refers to staked ETH. It is utilized to earn dividends and may be used in decentralized finance (DeFi) operations, thus providing utility to holders.
👉SBTC and STONEBTC are the tokens that enable the transformation of Bitcoin (BTC) into liquid assets so that users are able to earn yields on different networks and maximize returns.
👉LiquidityPad is the tool that supports new blockchains by helping them attract and retain the liquidity they need to function effectively and grow.
👉STO Token - this governance token gives holders the power to vote on decisions that affect the system's operations, letting them have a say in its future direction.
How StakeStone Works
StakeStone operates through a combination of its technical elements and governance structures. The main elements and their functions are described below.
STONE: Rewarding Ethereum Staking
STONE is the token that represents staked Ethereum. With StakeStone, users receive STONE tokens in return if they decide to stake ETH with StakeStone.
The STONE tokens have a two-fold function, used both to earn staking rewards and to lend and trade products in DeFi. This setup allows users to earn from staking rewards while, at the same time, engaging in several other activities across the DeFi platform.
Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT)
STONE has been designed as an Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) using LayerZero technology that allows transfers between chains in a seamless manner. STONE's price is determined by the protocol in its smart contract and not by decentralized exchanges (DEXs). It is the association with DEXs and the intrinsic price volatility of these that allows for price matches.
SBTC and STONEBTC
SBTC and STONEBTC are two of the most popular varieties of Bitcoin (BTC) that promise customers low-cost trading options along with the possibility of additional rewards.
The two tokens were introduced by StakeStone with the objective of pushing the utility of Bitcoin into smart contracts, which are beset by some current limitations.
SBTC
SBTC or liquid Bitcoin is actually the combination of all the varied types of Bitcoin derivatives, such as WBTC and BTCB, into one convenient currency.
SBTC has utility across different blockchain networks like BNB Chain and Ethereum. Bitcoin derivatives are required to be deposited to purchase SBTC. The deposit essentially mints SBTC, and it has uses like trading and lending in the decentralized finance space.
STONEBTC
STONEBTC or revenue-generating BTC is a progression of SBTC that allows users to earn extra revenue with the aid of several financial products like DeFi, CeDeFi, and Real-World Assets (RWA).
When you deposit SBTC or other Bitcoin derivatives, STONEBTC automatically invests them to help you earn the highest rewards possible.
Use
These tokens make Bitcoin more usable in the context of the DeFi environment, making it more convenient and allowing for better capital allocation. StakeStone has partnered with networks such as Mantle, Linea, and Zircuit. With the partnership, SBTC and STONEBTC are likely to expand their scope and reach a much wider audience.
LiquidityPad
LiquidityPad is a tool designed to help new blockchains get plenty of cash flow, called liquidity. It acts as a bridge connecting the mature DeFi ecosystem of Ethereum to newer, younger blockchains.
A user can choose to deposit assets like Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin (BTC) derivatives, or other stablecoins into vaults for each respective ecosystem. In return, they get liquidity provider (LP) tokens.
Usable in the Ethereum environment
These LP tokens are usable in the Ethereum environment and newly created blockchain environments, thus providing benefits to users in both environments. This two-way engagement allows new blockchains to leverage Ethereum's deep pool of liquidity.
In addition, it allows Ethereum users to explore new forms of income generation in these new ececosystems.
Focus of the LiquidityPad
LiquidityPad avoids dependence on ephemeral token rewards that are short-lived in nature. As it focuses on more long-standing strategies, it encourages steady and long-term growth in the world of blockchain.
Credit Margin Engine (CME)
StakeStone has developed a new way to handle liquidity across different blockchain networks called omnichain liquidity technology. This method replaces traditional bridges, which are known for being slow and risky, with a tool called the Credit Margin Engine (CME).
The CME relies on Native's system, which includes automated market-making and a versatile, universally compatible engine. As of May 2025, StakeStone supports over 20 different blockchains and interacts with more than 100 various protocols.
Here's what the CME does:
🔥It keeps the amount of money available (liquidity) balanced among various blockchain networks.
🔥It improves price settings so that there's less chance of loss due to slippage and ensures prices are fair for everyone.
🔥Unlike the usual bridges, where you need to complete many steps, CME allows transactions between different chains with just a single click.
Governance and STO Token
The STO token plays a key role in the management of StakeStone. By locking up STO tokens, you can receive veSTO, which gives you voting power on important decisions. For instance, veSTO holders decide how to allocate rewards in the STONE-Fi, BTC-Fi, and LiquidityPad pools. They also gain extra benefits depending on how many STO tokens they have locked.
The decision-making system
Bribe System
Programs use STO or tokens from partners to attract more money. Some STO tokens used this way are destroyed, reducing available supply, while partner token use helps diversify program funds.
Swap Mechanism
When there are price differences to exploit, STO holders can trade their tokens for other assets, like partner tokens. This exchange creates value and keeps the STO supply tight.
Vesting
To convert veSTO back to STO, a 30-day waiting period is required, which encourages long-term commitment.
StakeStone's Vision
StakeStone aims to be the underlying technology that allows different blockchains to work in harmony. Let us now venture into StakeStone's goals in the world of blockchain.
👉Enable seamless and efficient value exchanges across several blockchains.
👉Handle your finances effectively, avoiding high costs and unnecessary delays.
👉Enable emerging blockchains to thrive and raise funds effectively.
StakeStone plans to reach these goals by constantly upgrading its technology and partnering with other blockchains, such as Scroll and Mantle. They strongly focus on openness and sustainability to ensure long-term success.
Benefits of Binance HODLer Program
Binance's HODLer Airdrop program is designed to reward BNB holders who subscribe to Binance's Simple Earn products—either Flexible or Locked options. Eligible users receive tokens from new and promising projects based on historical snapshots of their BNB balances.
#BinanceHODLerSTO

Binance is excited to announce the 68th project on Binance Launchpool - Initia (INIT).
Users will be able to lock their BNB, FDUSD, and USDC to receive INIT airdrops over 6 days, with farming starting from 2025-04-18 00:00 (UTC).
Listing
Binance will then list INIT at 2025-04-24 11:00 (UTC) and open trading with INIT/USDT, INIT/USDC, INIT/BNB, INIT/FDUSD, and INIT/TRY trading pairs. The Seed Tag will be applied to INIT.
Detailed Overview of Initia
Initia is an innovative, multichain Layer 1 blockchain. If modern attempts were made to rebuild multichain networks from existing knowledge, they would look very much like Initia.
After completing three rounds of financing in two years, we have ended up with a 15% cap for investors in total allocation. YZi Labs led Initia's pre-seed round, with Delphi Ventures and Hack VC following with their initial seed support, followed by Theory Ventures in their Series A round.
Initia launched its first-ever sale via The Echonomist, Echo's venture community collective, thus inaugurating a new era for community participation and ownership, followed by Usual Money, MegaETH, and Fogo.
Multichain ecosystem
Ethereum has grown to become a multichain ecosystem. OP Stack, built by Optimism, combined with mass adoption for rollups, makes creating new chains incredibly easy. Chains built on these rollup platforms effectively act as equivalent clones that prove to be difficult to modify with substantive changes or customizations.
How does Initia fit into this?
Initia has the benefit of hindsight. Having seen constraints in existing multi-chain architectures, Initia set to task in creating a unique scaffolding for use in an era in which rollup-centric design is prevalent.
This scaffolding focuses on flexibility in all key dimensions, formalizes necessary properties, converts tied-up capital to efficiently shared liquidity, aggregates the end-user experience across all connected rollup apps, and features an economic system that captures value on Layer 1.
Interwoven stack
Initia has a strong, unique character due to deliberate architecture choices. Every functionality and tool that an app-chain developer can expect is built directly into the system. This allows for access to the developer environment for the Interwoven Stack from day one.
Interwoven Stack overcomes fragmentation by eliminating choice overload, thus allowing teams to focus on creating outstanding apps. The architecture choices made include:
👉LayerZero and IBC
👉Celestia DA.
👉Supports USDC and CCTP protocols.
👉Oracle integration via validator sidecars.
The initial-wide fungibility means that every chain has just one version of USDC, ETH, and other assets, without having wrapped or bridged tokens on all Interwoven Rollups.
👉Any extra tokens for gas
👉Integrated indexers
Economic Framework: Initia Vested Interest Program
Initia VIP was designed to realize the potential of Initia's L1 architecture and its own token, INIT, in pursuing better economic alignment while solving for the principal-agent problem that could exist between users, developers, and L2s.
VIP improves on the deployment of INIT, creating an economic balance that incentivizes all participants in the ecosystem to invest in INIT's success.
L2 economics
The economics of L2 become relevant to agents in all Omnitia-based dApps, at the same time incentivizing developers to include the token in their projects and align their interests with INIT's long-term success.
In addition, L2s have an incentive to increase their operations while keeping their users active in their apps.
Priority rollup-level parameters
Two important rollup-level parameters determine rewards distributed: the total INIT value allocated to a particular rollup and the weight specified by governance for all Interwoven Rollups.
Rewards
Rewards to an individual rollup equate to their proportion of INIT bridged to that particular rollup compared to total INIT bridged to all Interwoven Rollups, plus weight specified by governance for that particular rollup compared to total weight.
Users receive rewards for every individual rollup depending on the KPIs specified by that particular rollup. These KPIs include any on-chain element that is being tracked. Some examples include:
🔥The total number of transactions that occurred over the course of the rollup period.
🔥The sound cascaded in one uninterrupted, anchored roll, repeating endlessly.
🔥The value of acquisitions done through a lending marketplace-based rollup. The number of NFTs that were generated for an NFT-based rollup.
Ecology grants
Most ecology grant funds go through subjective judgment before being directly allocated to teams. Historically, such grants have been held by users in their possession; instead of being surrendered, teams often keep them or have them idle in project treasuries.
By paying esINIT directly to users, such is avoided, offering teams an incentive to gather fees or earn prolonged income from use of apps, all while using VIP to start earning.
Enshrined liquidity
Initia's Enshrined Liquidity addresses some of the core challenges brought about by the Proof of Stake (PoS) as well as rollup mechanisms. Some of those challenges include:
👉Trade-offs between chain security and liquidity.
👉Lack of capital efficiency
👉Liquidity fragmentation
This mechanism facilitates staking by governance-whitelisted InitiaDEX INIT-TOKEN holdings, in addition to the native INIT token. In some form or another, it solves all of the aforementioned challenges.
Improving the chain's security and liquidity
Typical proof-of-stake protocols allow holders to stake their tokens with validators, thus making their chain more secure while receiving rewards in the process.
However, this is done at a tradeoff: as more tokens are staked, security for the chain is maximized, but application-layer liquidity is reduced. This tension has a profound impact on both security and liquidity in the chain.
By allowing users to stake their liquidity pools, they support not only chain security but also liquidity growth, along with rewards for staking as well as for providing liquidity.
Increasing capital efficiency
The users have to make a choice: stake their funds or offer liquidity. This leads to a situation where, in order to benefit from both, users end up splitting their money across multiple bets, compromising overall capital efficiency in the process.
Enshrined Liquidity eliminates the tradeoff previously present between staking and providing liquidity, such that liquidity positions may now be used as staking assets. Users are now able to earn staking rewards in combination with trading fees from one position, resulting in improved capital efficiency as well as an integrated approach to deploying capital.
Initia Ecosystem
Currently, sixteen rollups have been launched on Initia's Interwoven Stack. The rollups have been able to attract over $28 million in backing from investors such as YZi Labs, Polychain, Hack VC, and Lightspeed Faction.
With over 130 million transactions between eight Interwoven Rollups on Layer 1, as well as about three million unique wallets that were created across a twelve-week Public Testnet, Initia is now set to start on Mainnet.
Three foundational stacks
Initia is built on top of three foundational stacks to create an integrated and optimized system for a rollup-based future: the Architecture Stack, the most appealing Economic Framework, and the Product Suite.
Economy of application-specific blockchains
Inita’s Economy of application-specific blockchains has raised more than $28M, which is more than Initia has fundraised itself! These are NOT applications built on a Layer 1. These are independent blockchains that are truly interwoven to Initia, sharing liquidity and reducing fragmentation.
The Initia Mainnet Launch: Expected Date and What's Next
While an exact date is to be determined, it is known that Initia's mainnet launch will center on creating value in its home ecosystem, hoping to include every aspect—from basic Layer 1 transactions to complex applications in DeFi, gaming, and NFTs.
With mainnet activation, users can expect to have access to fundamental network features, including:
🔥The Omnitia Liquidity Hub, complete with an in-built DEX.
🔥Ability to support Layer 2 Minitias.
🔥The addition of governance mechanisms, among others.
The launch will also initiate the 30-day claim window for the widely anticipated INIT token airdrop, allowing eligible participants to claim their tokens.
EMBR
The world's first meme-based coins appchain, EMBR, is launching on Initia's Interwoven Stack to realize an ambitious mission to foster an on-chain community in which memes not only endure but also evolve.
This is not just another chain. "This is where memes reside," EMBR's team announced, highlighting their intent to create lasting memes and create a decentralized haven for meme culture.
The platform is designed to enable the tokenization of meme content for sharing in a controlled environment, with more tools and features for interacting with memes in the pipeline.
RAVE
RAVE Trade is an unstoppable and strobe-light quick experience, providing perpetual on-chain trading with any collateral on Initia. Rave will provide users with the following:
🔥Yield stables, 6x restaked ETH, or memes; any collateral is invited to the RAVE.
🔥Daytrading and partying at night; nowadays, RAVE Trade is more closely integrated.
RAVE’s highly composite rollup allows for premier asset trading with a wide range of collateral, including stablecoins, LRTs, and even AI memecoins.
Minity
Introducing Minity, a comprehensive portfolio tracker for interwoven rollups on Initia. Minity optimizes monitoring for all such assets, DeFi balances, NFTs, etc., within connected rollups.
Key features of Minity:
👉Asset Tracking: Allowing individuals to track their digital assets and DeFi holdings in one place, making managing their investments even easier.
👉NFT Management: Here, users can manage their NFTs as well as receive useful insights on their portfolios.
👉Minity's modular design enables smoother discovery and use of its functionalities in combined blockchain systems.
Intergaze
Intergaze is an application developed by Stargaze to allow developers to launch and manage their NFT sets. The application allows for minting, transferring, and trading of NFTs between multiple blockchains. By using Initia's Interwoven Stack in conjunction with Celestia for data availability, it offers cross-chain capability without charging gas fees.
Intergaze is an advanced NFT launchpad that allows you to debut on Initia and start selling on Stargaze.
Echelon Chain
Echelon Chain is an appchain for lending and debt, painstakingly designed on Initia's Interwoven Stack, powered by Celestia Data Availability. Its main purpose is to act as the debt engine for interwoven modular economics. Some of the most prominent features include:
🔥Asset onboarding from anywhere with LayerZero and IBC
🔥Scalable DA with access to Celestia-native assets
🔥Native USDC & CCTP.
🔥Oracles Enshr
🔥A complete product suite (wallet, explorers, usernames, etc.)
Zaar
Initia’s Mainnet features Zaar – a custom-built rollup as the on-chain PlayPlace for NFTs, carefully embedded in a thoroughly networked ecosystem. Zaar will allow users to trade, craft, and withdraw NFTs on numerous chains that have high liquidity.
MilkyWay
MilkyWay was the initial and biggest liquid staking and restaking protocol in the modular architecture. With the launch of MilkyWay Mainnet, Initia will bring on board a liquid staking solution.
In participating in MilkyWay's liquid staking of their INIT, users obtain an on-chain tokenized version of their staked assets in the form of milkINIT. This facilitates Initia token holders to unlock their staked funds, which can in turn be traded or be used as collateral for an array of DeFi products.
Simply storing our liquid staked INIT, milkINIT, automatically compounds staking benefits.
Civita
Civitia is an open-source game that welcomes players to an original social and economic environment, built with meticulous care on top of the Initia modular blockchain and the modular data availability network of Celestia.
The Civitia Lobby will open on the first day of the Initia Mainnet.
INIT Launchpool Details:
👉Token Name: Initia (INIT)
👉Total Token Supply: 1,000,000,000 INIT
👉Max Token Supply: 1,000,000,000 INIT
👉Launchpool Token Rewards: 30,000,000 INIT (3% of total token supply)
👉An additional 10,000,000 INIT will be allocated to the other marketing campaigns (in batches) after spot listing. Details will be shown in a separate announcement.
👉An additional 20,000,000 INIT will be allocated to the other marketing campaigns (in batches) 6 months after spot listing. Details will be shown in a separate announcement.
👉Initial Circulating Supply When Listed on Binance: 148,750,000 INIT (~14.88% of total token supply)
Hourly Hard Cap per User:
👉17,708.33 INIT in BNB pool
👉1,041.66 INIT in FDUSD pool
👉2,088.33 INIT in USDC pool
Supported Pools:
Lock BNB:
https://launchpad.binance.com/en/launchpool/INIT_BNB
25,500,000 INIT in rewards (85%)
Lock FDUSD:
https://launchpad.binance.com/en/
1,500,000 INIT in rewards (5%)
Lock USDC:
https://launchpad.binance.com/en/launchpool/INIT_USDC
3,000,000 INIT in rewards (10%)
Farming Period: 2025-04-18 00:00 (UTC) to 2025-04-23 23:59 (UTC)
How Binance Launchpool Benefits BNB Holders

Binance Launchpool has played a key role in supporting the price stability and long-term value of BNB, the utility token of the BNB Chain ecosystem that powers the Binance Launchpool program.
In 2024, BNB’s price more than doubled from around $317 at the start of the year to $700 by year-end. A major reason behind BNB’s resilience is the continuous demand created by Launchpool, which incentivizes users to stake rather than sell. By locking up BNB to farm new tokens, participants reduce market supply, helping to sustain price levels even in volatile market conditions.
Beyond price stability, Launchpool enhances the utility of BNB by offering predictable rewards to holders. Instead of relying on speculation, users can earn new tokens through staking, ensuring a steady stream of returns while maintaining exposure to a historically stable asset. This combination of yield-generation and price support makes BNB one of the strongest assets in the market, reinforcing its role as the backbone of the BNB Chain ecosystem.
Getting Started with Binance Launchpool
For those new to the program, participating in Binance Launchpool is a straightforward process. Users need to create a Binance account and complete basic verification steps before they can stake assets in active pools.
Once staked, rewards are distributed daily based on each participant’s contribution to the pool. This means that the more an individual stakes, the higher their share of the rewards. Tokens earned through Launchpool can be held for long-term appreciation or traded immediately upon listing, giving participants flexibility in managing their earnings.
For anyone looking to expand their crypto portfolio while minimizing risk, Binance Launchpool presents an unmatched opportunity. There is never a better time than today to get involved and start farming your rewards!
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