Story Protocol jumps 7% after Aria acquisition – Can IP break $3.2?

Key Takeaways

What does IP Strategy’s acquisition of Aria Protocol tokens signal to the market? 

It reflects strong institutional confidence in the commercial viability of tokenized intellectual property.

Is the current price rally likely to continue? 

While momentum is building, technical indicators suggest caution as the token nears key resistance levels.

Story Protocol [IP] recent move to acquire Aria Protocol’s ecosystem tokens, ARIAIP and APL, has injected fresh optimism into the market. 

Story Protocol’s investors and traders interpret the purchase as a strong vote of confidence in one of the most commercially advanced IP-RWA models in crypto today.

Following the purchase, the network’s token prices have gained by about 7%.  The bigger question among the IP investors now is whether the renewed momentum may propel its price past the $3.2 key resistance level.

Institutional interests align with the growing market strength

Source: Coinalyze

The broader market environment is already leaning bullish.

According to the recent data from Coinalyze, the token Open Interest (OI) has also climbed by 5.10% over the past 24 hours. This signals that traders are increasing their exposure rather than taking profits.

At the same time, whales on the spot market have started accumulating at current prices, often an early indication of confidence in near-term upside.

On the Futures side, buyers remain firmly in control, further supporting the unfolding bullish bias.

Combined, these trends suggest that the recent rally may not be a standalone spike, but part of a developing move backed by both institutional flows and derivatives activity.

Source: CryptoQuant

Why the Aria acquisition matters

To understand why IP Strategy’s announcement sparked market enthusiasm, it’s important to consider what Aria Protocol offers.

Built on Story, a Layer-1 blockchain designed for intellectual property, Aria transforms real-world, income-generating IP rights into liquid, on-chain assets.

This includes some of the world’s most valuable music catalogs, featuring artists like BTS, Justin Bieber, BLACKPINK, Madonna, and Miley Cyrus. ARIAIP governs the protocol, while APL gives holders exposure to actual royalty income.

As programmable IP continues to scale within the Story ecosystem, IP Strategy’s acquisition signals a strong belief in the long-term commercial potential of tokenized intellectual property.

Because the purchase also complements their existing IP reserves and validator revenue streams, the market sees it not just as accumulation, but as strategic alignment with the expanding RWA narrative.

Could IP break the $3.2 barrier?

Putting all these elements together, the rising OI, whale accumulation, futures-market buyer dominance, and the strategic backing of IP, the bullish case appears to be building.

On the daily chart, the resistance at $3.2 still holds. The token price is already surging toward this zone, and the unmitigated liquidity level sitting above it affirms the bias. If momentum continues at the current pace, this could pull the token further up.

However, both stochastic RSI and Exponential Moving Average indicate cautionary signals for a potential reversal.

The token is currently trading below the EMA resistance, and the stochastic RSI is approaching an overbought region.

Source: TradingView