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91M PULP is staked while the token falls 73%

PaperDAO says more than 91 million PULP is now staked. The supply lock sounds bullish, but the main pool is thin and the token's market has fallen sharply.

By Lorde BuildsOctober 11, 2026 · 3 min readUpdated October 11, 2026
91M PULP is staked while the token falls 73%. Forest-green headline on cream beside the official PaperDAO icon and a small locked vault above shallow liquidity.
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PaperDAO says more than 91 million PULP is now staked, over 10% of the token’s circulating supply.

That sounds like a supply squeeze. The market is telling a rougher story.

During our October 11 check, the largest observed PULP pool was down about 73% in 24 hours. It held roughly $79,000 of liquidity against about $571,000 of daily volume.

PULP is being locked. It is not becoming easy to exit.

The staking total and circulating-supply percentage are project-side claims. Original post.

What stakers are being promised

PaperDAO pooled capital to trade Papertrade from its launch. PULP represents a claim on that community treasury and is meant to become redeemable for PAPER later.

The staking vault adds another layer. PaperDAO says stakers will receive fees collected by the PULP liquidity pool while PAPER remains locked. Daos.world says protocol fees and trading fees can feed the vault.

The final reward date is not fixed. A separate community proposal is asking holders to choose it.

So the current trade is not simply “stake PULP and earn PAPER.” It depends on fee generation, treasury performance, the PAPER unlock and the eventual redemption process.

Why 91 million staked does not settle the risk

Locking more than 10% of circulating supply can reduce the number of tokens immediately available to sell. It can also concentrate the remaining trading inside a shallow pool.

At the reporting cutoff, the main observed pool showed:

  • about $394,500 in market value
  • about $79,200 in liquidity
  • about $570,900 in 24-hour volume
  • a 73.25% decline over 24 hours

Those figures can move quickly. The useful relationship is the gap between trading activity and the small amount of liquidity available to absorb exits.

A high staking percentage does not fix that gap. It may make it more important.

What the market still cannot verify

The official posts identify the PULP token as 0xBc2283d12B1f2f46c1613AE672E95C55b69Ca414 on Robinhood Chain. They do not provide a full public accounting of:

  • unique stakers and wallet concentration
  • team-controlled or treasury-controlled deposits
  • the staking-vault contract and withdrawal rules
  • how fees are measured and distributed
  • when PAPER becomes redeemable

Replies to the staking announcement were split between bullish reactions and questions about supply, buybacks, wallet warnings and the PAPER unlock. That is sentiment, not proof either way.

The real story is the collision between a large reported supply lock and a very small, fast-moving market. The next useful update is not a bigger staking headline. It is evidence showing who staked, how rewards accrue and whether liquidity deepens.

Sources and reporting notes

Checked October 11, 2026. The first near-50-million figure comes from PaperDAO. The later 91-million figure, 10% claim and stated fee sources come from daos.world. Market figures are a time-stamped observation from DexScreener. We did not audit the vault contract, count unique stakers or verify wallet ownership.