IP Price is Up by 50% Today, After Hitting a New ATH

Key Points

• IP price reached a new ATH yesterday above $6.9.
• On February 20, Story revealed its technical roadmap.

Today, Story (IP) is among the top gainers with a price surge of around 50%. This comes after the digital asset reached a new ATH on February 20.

IP Price is Up by 50%

At the moment of writing this article, IP is trading at $4.78, up by around 50% in the past 24 hours. IP has a market cap of $1.19 billion, after reaching its ATH the other day at over $1.7 billion.

Yesterday, the digital asset’s price spiked by over 60% in a relatively short amount of time, topping $6.9.

On February 20, the team behind Story Protocol announced that the technical roadmap went live.

Story Technical Roadmap

In a post via X, the team noted that Story is committed to driving continuous improvements to L1 in the following areas:

• Performance
• Reliability
• Decentralization

The project builds a unique stack of IP-focused product features and applications on top of the L1 infrastructure.

The notes reveal that there will be 2 key technical releases in 2025:

1. Late Q1/Early Q2 – Product Release
2. Q3 – Comprehensive Network Upgrade

Story’s Product Release

Story will ship the IP Portal which is the home page of the project, allowing users to register IP seamlessly and browser IP registered across any app on Story.

The project will also launch Attestation Service, a decentralized oracle network that brings IP validation signals (ID of the creator, infringement detection) on-chain.

Story’s Network Upgrade

A network upgrade will take place for the project in Q3, and the L1 will be boosted across the following dimensions:

• Performance – Faster transactions, higher throughput, and more validators
• Product – IPKit Frontend SDK, large file storage, and more
• Governance – Decentralized, transparent, and seamless upgrades

Story Team Research

Story’s engineering team is currently researching topics that include the following:

• Next-gen consensus
• On-chain storage at scale
• AI execution layers
• Confidential IP transactions

Some research will be executed via the partnership with Stanford FDCL, according to the official post .

On February 13, Binance Futures launched futures trading for IP. The team behind the project notes that Story IP is “the world’s IP blockchain.”