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IP Strategy Announces Transition to Custodied Long-Term Validator Staking; Anticipates Yield Increasing by Nearly 150%
GIG HARBOR, Wash., Dec. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IP Strategy (Nasdaq: IPST) (the “Company”), the first Nasdaq-listed digital asset treasury (DAT) centered
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[{"type":"text","content":"GIG HARBOR, Wash., Dec. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IP Strategy (Nasdaq: IPST) (the “Company”), the first Nasdaq-listed digital asset treasury (DAT) centered on the $IP token, today announced a major advancement in its validator operations to significantly expand is on-chain revenue engine: the initiation of long-term self-staking under custodial accounts at Crypto.com. The transition to long-term staking on the Company’s validator is expected to increase overall yields to approximately 11.72%, more than doubling the returns previously earned through flexible staking. The validator upgrade also enables the Company to stake up to an additional 10.7 million $IP tokens (approximately 20% of its treasury) that are currently unstaked. Moving these $IP tokens into long-term staking and raising the yield on staked assets to approximately 11.72% represents a potential 150% uplift in total validator earnings, expected to be achieved without any material increase in operating costs. The Company owns a total of 53.2 million $IP tokens and expects to transition most of them to its new custodied validator system by early Q1 2026. Today’s announcement furthers IP Strategy’s overall business momentum, which includes (1) the launch of its in-house validator (October 2025), (2) IP Strategy’s partnership with Crypto.com to provide institutional-grade custody and validator support (November 2025), and (3) IP Strategy’s monthly publications detailing validator performance (November 2025). In the Company’s 2025 third quarter 10-Q filing, it reported gross margins of 97.2% from its crypto and related business. Increasing potential yield by up to 150% without adding significant new operational costs is expected to increase gross margins for this segment even further. Successful Transition of Previously Unstaked $IP Tokens Begins; First 1 Million $IP Tokens Moved to Long-Term Staking Under the new custody and validator system supported by Crypto.com, IP Strategy has begun transitioning a portion of its 10.7 million previously unstaked $IP tokens into long-term staking arrangements. As an initial step, 1 million of IPST’s previously unstaked $IP tokens were migrated into long-term staking on December 2, 2025, marking the first phase of this transition. In anticipation of this new validation system, these $IP tokens were previously sitting idle and not ...