LayerZero Foundation, the organization which supports the cross-chain interoperability protocol LayerZero, proposed on Sunday a $110 million acquisition of the Stargate bridge and its STG tokens, aiming to bring a major ecosystem participant in-house.
“This offer is designed to accelerate both Stargate and LayerZero, giving Stargate the resources to ship on an aggressive roadmap that expands its prerogative outside of bridging, while tying an incredible, revenue-generating protocol that touches the end-consumer deeper into the LayerZero ecosystem,” the proposal states.
Under the terms of the proposal, the STG token would be discontinued, with STG holders able to trade their tokens for ZRO, the native token of LayerZero, at a ratio of 1 STG : 0.08634 ZRO, reflecting a value of $0.1675 per STG and $1.94 per ZRO. Stargate would be brought under the LayerZero Foundation, and its DAO would be dissolved.
“We want to move faster,” LayerZero Labs co-founder and CEO Bryan Pellegrino wrote on X. “[We want to] help Stargate execute on it’s ambitious roadmap while creating a single stack that anybody integrating within the LayerZero ecosystem can adopt.”
Stargate was originally launched by LayerZero in 2022, and its token, STG, reached its all-time high price of $4.14 soon after. However, despite the bridge’s success — the proposal touts it as “the most used bridge in the industry today” with over $70 billion in historical volume — the token’s price has dwindled to under $0.20.
Following the proposal, the price of STG jumped about 12%, currently trading at $0.188 at 2:30 pm ET, according to The Block’s STG Price page. The ZRO token also jumped, rising about 15% following the announcement, according to The Block’s ZRO Price page. With both tokens moving up in price, the dollar value of the deal effectively increases, from $110 million when the proposal was published to about $127 million at current prices.
The proposal, posted in the Stargate DAO’s community forum, is open to questions for the next seven days. Some early respondents complained that STG holders were not being compensated well enough.
“The $STG token has been as high as $4 in previous cycles. Given the amount of revenue Stargate makes and the potential for the protocol, this offer should be significantly higher,” user Vladtheinhaler wrote.
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