IP Strategy announces transition to custodied long-term validator staking

IP Strategy (IPST) 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 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.