Lido DAO: Decoding how $14.5m rejection could not stop 35% rally

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Lido DAO Token [LDO] is back to doing what it has done for its investors—make their profits. The altcoin, also the native token of crypto staking provider, has been on top of performance in the last 24 hours. At press time, LDO had registered a 35.57% price increase from its previous day’s high. 

Besides its current situation, LDO has made its investors highlyprofitable since the start of July. According to CoinMarketCap, LDO traded at $0.47 on 1 July. Fast forward to 17 July, one LDO was worth $1.75.

Source: CoinMarketCap

Despite the uptick, it dipped to $1.29 on 26 July. Now, the token has outperformed almost every cryptocurrency in the top 50. After starting on 27 July at around $1.42, the LDO price increased and was $2.14 at the time of this writing. So how has LDO bullied through in the face of an offer rejection?

Before the price uptick, cross-border investment firm Dragonfly Capital offered to buy 1% of LDO tokens. In exchange, Lido Finance was supposed to get $14.5 million worth of DAI. However, the Lido DAO community rejected the offer.

— Lido (@LidoFinance) July 26, 2022

Some quarters would have expected the refusal to lead to an LDO downtrend. Interestingly, it was the other way around. Apart from the community’s belief in the project, some additional metrics have been vital in influencing the price uptick.

Data from Santiment showed that LDO had gained momentum in many aspects. Besides its price increase, the exchange supply had moved up significantly. At press time, it was 45.19 million.

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