Story is the first blockchain ecosystem in the cryptocurrency industry focused on intellectual property management, dedicated to transforming intellectual property (IP) into programmable assets, allowing creators to register, license, and monetize their works, while automating licensing and revenue distribution through smart contracts. This model addresses the complexities and rights protection issues in traditional IP management, especially as its value gradually emerges in the AI-driven digital economy.
In fact, the market highly recognizes the narrative of Story. Story Protocol has completed a $140 million financing round, including an $80 million Series B round led by a16z, as well as seed and Series A rounds from well-known investment institutions such as Consensys and Polychain Capital. This not only reflects the capital market's high recognition of Story's business model but also indicates that its growth potential has gained strong confidence from top investors.
On February 13, Story Protocol officially transitioned from the testnet to the mainnet, fully launching the ecosystem. At the same time, the native token of the Story ecosystem, $IP, performed impressively after entering the market, soaring from an opening price of $1 to a peak of $7, becoming one of the most notable assets in the recent market. This surge not only represents the market's high recognition of the Story ecosystem but also signifies that Story, as a pioneer in the narrative of intellectual property + blockchain, is gradually realizing its potential value.
Of course, although many investors missed the early surge of $IP, the wealth effect of the Story ecosystem continues to be released. As the liquidity hub of the Story ecosystem, D3X is becoming the successor of this wealth effect, providing more users with a new entry point to access the Story ecosystem and capture dividends.
D3X Wealth Effect New Entry: Liquidity Aggregator of the Story Ecosystem
D3X is an on-chain trading ecosystem with outstanding AI capabilities, providing not only spot and on-chain derivatives trading but also real-time insights into key data indicators of the on-chain market through its AI engine, including trading data, market sentiment (bullish, bearish), and unexpected events, with the ability to respond to market changes in milliseconds.
Its core product, D3X Exchange, offers spot and perpetual contract trading, integrating D3X's AI solutions to provide users with an intelligent trading assistant for the cryptocurrency market, achieving more efficient trading strategies.
In the new development phase of the Story Protocol ecosystem, D3X is accelerating its expansion, becoming not only an early native DEX of the Story ecosystem but also building an important liquidity hub for the Story ecosystem.
With the launch of the Story mainnet, mainstream wallets such as OKX Wallet, Bitget Wallet, and Tomo Wallet have taken the lead in providing support, while D3X, as the core trading platform of the Story ecosystem, has deeply integrated with the aforementioned wallets and announced that users can access the Story ecosystem directly through D3X, further enhancing the liquidity and user coverage of the Story ecosystem.
Moreover, D3X is collaborating with other key projects in the Story ecosystem. For example, the DEX project Piperx aims to become a complete IPFi platform on the Story ecosystem, providing a liquidity layer to support programmable IP asset trading. Through integration with Piperx, D3X can collect liquidity data and use smart routing to optimize IP asset trading, providing liquidity aggregation services for IP assets in the Story ecosystem, similar to 1inch on the Story ecosystem, helping users seize early trading opportunities in the Story ecosystem and promote the realization of the IPFi narrative.
Against the backdrop of the soaring $IP asset, D3X has taken the lead in launching the $IP token in its perpetual contract trading segment, offering investors more trading options. Additionally, to promote $IP trading and further enhance the liquidity of the Story ecosystem, D3X has launched a special $IP trading competition, where participants can not only earn $IP token rewards but also D3X points rewards, accelerating user growth and market activity in the Story ecosystem. As the trading competition heats up, D3X is continuously releasing the wealth effect for the Story ecosystem and further solidifying its position as the core trading platform of the Story ecosystem.
A New Engine for Wealth Effect
As the Story ecosystem operates fully, D3X is not only becoming the liquidity hub and important entry point of the ecosystem but is also emerging as the engine for the wealth effect of this ecosystem.
Currently, D3X has launched a brand new points system and is about to initiate a node revenue system.
The New Points System
Previously, D3X had introduced a points system where users needed to complete a series of social tasks to continuously earn points rewards, which could be used for subsequent airdrop exchanges and a series of ecosystem benefits (such as priority access to AI features).
In the new points system of D3X, most of the past task points (such as inviting, binding accounts, social media interactions, etc.) have been removed, retaining only:
Daily Check-in: 100 points per day
Invitation Rewards: 100 points for each person invited
Additionally, a new trading points earning mechanism has been added: in the D3X perpetual contract trading segment, users can earn 1 point for every $1 traded (1:1 exchange rate), which also means D3X is further incentivizing users to accumulate points through trading in D3X perpetual contracts.
In the trading points earning segment, only perpetual contract trades conducted on the D3X official website will count towards points. Moreover, different trading pairs have minimum trading volume requirements, and the size of leverage will also affect the required minimum principal (the higher the leverage, the lower the required principal). D3X points balances will be updated regularly.
The new points system allows users to earn additional points rewards while trading, achieving dual benefits.
With the launch of the new points system, it is expected to become an important opportunity for users of the Story ecosystem and D3X traders to capture future wealth. At the same time, D3X continues to support Story ecosystem assets, and the new points system will attract more users into the Story ecosystem, bringing more liquidity to early assets (especially some tokenized IP assets) and further invigorating the Story ecosystem market.
D3X Nodes
Currently, D3X has also launched the Genesis Node, providing exclusive benefits for ecosystem participants. The current price is 600 USDT, and users can purchase it to receive a series of exclusive benefits, with a total of only 25,000 nodes available. Due to its scarcity, the price will continue to rise as the nodes are sold, meaning the earlier you buy, the lower the cost.
Holding a node grants multiple benefits, the most core of which is revenue rights.
According to the token distribution, D3X allocates 20% of the total token supply for Genesis node incentives, meaning users holding nodes will participate in node mining after the token generation event (TGE). The release rules for mining tokens are that 15% will be released in the first year, and thereafter, the remaining 15% will be gradually released until fully mined.
In addition to node mining rewards, during the points system reward period, users who purchase nodes can earn 1 point every 3 hours until the formal mining begins, at which point points rewards will stop. Additionally, node holders enjoy a 1 point = 1 token exchange right (only the points generated from purchasing nodes can be exchanged for tokens, with a maximum of 8 points = 8 D3X tokens per day), and this token exchange ratio is much higher than that of ordinary users. These token rewards will be released after TGE in a three-month unlocking manner, with 50% unlocked in the first month, 25% in the second month, and 25% in the third month.
In fact, from the perspective of D3X token distribution, the weight of node incentives is particularly prominent.
Team: 10% (locked for 1 year, 2 years linear release)
Revenue Distribution: 10% (for platform operation and ecosystem returns)
Institutional Investment: 15% (locked for 8 months, 2 years linear release)
Market Management: 10% (for enhancing market liquidity)
Ecosystem: 30% (for ecosystem incentives, technology development, and strategic cooperation)
Node Incentives: 20% (for node mining)
Airdrop Rewards: 5% (for early user incentives)
Node incentives account for 20% of the total token supply, while airdrop rewards only account for 5%. In comparison, the incentive weight and long-term revenue potential of nodes are evident.
At the same time, users holding Genesis nodes will receive a series of partner token airdrop incentives from D3X, as well as rewards such as trading fee buybacks.
Moreover, purchasing a node also comes with a one-year free usage right for an AI aggregator worth 1000 USDT, a tool that can significantly enhance the earning potential of node holders in the trading market. Overall, node users not only enjoy token incentives but also have priority access to core ecosystem features, and these early bird benefits will ultimately translate into long-term and substantial wealth returns.
From the perspective of the D3X token itself, it plays a key role in the D3X ecosystem and is expected to play an important role in the Story ecosystem in the future, further gaining deep value empowerment and forming a long-term market necessity.
At the same time, D3X's economic model has also set up a token burn mining mechanism to reduce market circulation, with a burn ratio of 20% of the total supply, meaning users who actively burn D3X tokens will receive system computing power rewards, with 1 token burned = 1 computing power earned, and the minimum burn threshold is 100 tokens. The computing power distribution rules are as follows:
Burn 1 token = Earn 1 computing power
Minimum burn threshold: Starting from 100 tokens
Computing power distribution mechanism:
Total computing power ≥ 10 million: 100% distribution of token rewards
Total computing power < 10 million: Proportional distribution of excess burned portion
Node mining and burn mining run in parallel, combined with liquidity incentive mechanisms, which help enhance the market value of D3X tokens and the returns for holders. From an investment perspective, this mechanism not only effectively stabilizes token supply but also enhances holder stickiness, providing steady and substantial return expectations for long-term investors.
So overall, as D3X continues to expand into the Story ecosystem and officially launches its ecosystem revenue and rights system, it is gradually taking over the wealth effect of the $IP token, helping the Story ecosystem achieve its IPFi vision while opening a new round of wealth growth for users.