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As of 2026-04-09 17:49, International Paper Co (IP) is priced at $36,81, with a total market cap of $19,62B, a P/E ratio of -5,91, and a dividend yield of %4,99. Today, the stock price fluctuated between $36,28 and $37,17. The current price is %1,46 above the day's low and %0,96 below the day's high, with a trading volume of 8,12M. Over the past 52 weeks, IP has traded between $33,88 to $37,17, and the current price is -%0,96 away from the 52-week high.

IP Key Stats

Yesterday's Close$34,54
Market Cap$19,62B
Volume8,12M
P/E Ratio-5,91
Dividend Yield (TTM)%4,99
Dividend Amount$0,46
Diluted EPS (TTM)6,66
Net Income (FY)-$3,51B
Revenue (FY)$24,89B
Earnings Date2026-04-30
EPS Estimate0,17
Revenue Estimate$5,97B
Shares Outstanding568,25M
Beta (1Y)1.099
Ex-Dividend Date2026-02-23
Dividend Payment Date2026-03-17

About IP

International Paper Company operates as a packaging company primarily in United States, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Pacific Rim, Asia, and rest of the Americas. It operates through two segments: Industrial Packaging and Global Cellulose Fibers. The Industrial Packaging segment manufactures containerboards, including linerboard, medium, whitetop, recycled linerboard, recycled medium, and saturating kraft. The Global Cellulose Fibers segment provides fluff, market, and specialty pulps that are used in absorbent hygiene products, such as baby diapers, feminine care, adult incontinence, and other non-woven products; tissue and paper products; and non-absorbent end applications, including textiles, filtration, construction material, paints and coatings, reinforced plastics, and other applications. It sells its products directly to end users and converters, as well as through agents, resellers, and paper distributors. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.
SectorConsumer Cyclical
IndustryPackaging & Containers
CEOAndrew K. Silvernail
HeadquartersMemphis,TN,US
Employees (FY)62,60K
Average Revenue (1Y)$397,68K
Net Income per Employee-$56,16K

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2026-04-09 01:37

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Gate News message: On April 9, according to Gate market data, as of the time of publication, ARIA (Aria) is trading at $0.67. Over the past 24 hours, it is up 32.95%, with a high of $0.74 and a low that fell to $0.49. The 24-hour trading volume has reached $1.0269 million. The current market cap is approximately $123 million. Aria.AI is a next-generation game development and publishing experiment. It draws inspiration from a Disney-style immersive world and AI technology, and is designed with its own IP-related gameplay as the core. It represents a major leap toward bringing Web2-quality game design and publishing standards (combined with AI execution) into the Web3 era. The project offers an open-world mobile gaming experience, where players can embark on adventures in a world called Fudonia, earn rewards through a Play-to-Earn mechanism, and mint ARIA Wishfont Passes to accelerate leveling up. The project has received support from multiple well-known investment institutions, including Folius Ventures, The Spartan Group, Merit Circle, and others. This news does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be mindful of the risks of market volatility.

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Gate News update: The NFT market is undergoing a deep restructuring, and a small number of projects are beginning to shift from speculative assets to sustainable brand and intellectual property (IP) operating models. Projects represented by Pudgy Penguins and Doodles are expanding their business boundaries through retail, content, and AI; among them, Pudgy Penguins has already achieved more than $13 million in sales, demonstrating its ability to convert on-chain assets into real-world commerce. The industry is currently showing clear segmentation. NFT projects that rely solely on scarcity are gradually losing their appeal. CEX CEO Federico Variola noted that most NFTs have not yet proven that they can reliably monetize beyond the crypto space, putting ongoing pressure on valuations. Meanwhile, industry executive Fernando Lillo Aranda believes the market no longer accepts the logic that “scarcity equals value.” Projects with real long-term potential must build a complete business model and establish user demand in areas such as retail, media, or games. A similar shift is also taking place in the gaming sector. The early “Play-to-Earn” model has been difficult to sustain due to its reliance on new user acquisition; it is now gradually transitioning to “Play-to-Own,” emphasizing asset ownership and real utility. Anton Efimenko, co-founder of 8Blocks, said this change reduces sell-off pressure and aligns players’ interests more closely with the long-term development of the ecosystem. At the same time, NFT IP tokenization is becoming a new trend. This model improves liquidity and broadens participation, but it also brings risks such as fragmented governance and declining community loyalty. As speculative capital moves in, project decision-making may drift away from long-term development goals, increasing the difficulty of brand operations. Overall, the NFT industry is entering a selection phase. Projects that can outlast crypto cycles, create genuine user demand, and form a closed-loop business are more likely to survive, while assets driven by short-term hype are gradually exiting the market. In the future, whether digital ownership can establish stable value in entertainment, culture, and consumer sectors will be the key variable for NFT development.

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Gate News reports that on March 31, the DeFi project Steakhouse Financial provided the latest update regarding the recent security incident. The Steakhouse.financial website remains offline; DNS records point to a blank page, but the Steakhouse Vaults website is fully operational and can be accessed directly through a certain DeFi protocol. Deposits, withdrawals, and all vault functions are functioning normally; users will receive confirmation messages once the frontend is restored. Steakhouse disclosed that the attack originated from a telephone social engineering attack targeting OVH Cloud. The attacker gained domain management permissions for steakhouse.financial, redirected the DNS A records of the main website and the app subdomain to a malicious IP, and attempted to initiate a domain transfer with a 5-day lock period. The official statement confirms that all related changes have been rolled back; currently, the domain records have been temporarily reset to blank. The vaults, smart contracts, and all deposited funds remain unaffected, ensuring user assets are secure.

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The Safest Middleman in the Chip Industry Takes the Most Dangerous Path

Between 4 billion dollars and 15 billion dollars, what lies between is not a growth curve but a self-revolution in business models. On March 24, Arm announced its first self-developed data center CPU in its 35-year history. Named AGI CPU, this chip features 136 Neoverse V3 cores, TSMC’s 3nm process, 300W TDP, with Meta as the first customer, planning large-scale deployment within the year. Also announced were collaborations with OpenAI, Cerebras, Cloudflare, SAP, and SK Telecom. Arm CEO Rene Haas provided a set of target figures at the launch, stating that the chip business aims to reach $15 billion in annual revenue by 2031, with the entire company’s total revenue at $25 billion and earnings per share of $9. What does this mean? Arm’s total revenue for FY2025 (ending March 2025) is $4.007 billion, according to Arm’s annual report, with licensing income of $1.839 billion and royalty income of $2.168 billion, and a gross margin of 97%. In other words, a company with $4 billion in annual revenue is expected to grow nearly to the scale of Intel’s entire data center division within five years based on a new business. According to Intel’s Q4 2024 financial report, Intel’s Data Center and AI (DCAI) division will generate $12.8 billion in revenue for 2024. ![](https://img-cdn.gateio.im/social/moments-b28ad97cef-f349f58fa5-8b7abd-ceda62) From $4 billion to $15 billion, a 3.7x leap, behind which is Arm’s attempt to transform from a pure IP licensing company into a hybrid that sells both design blueprints and finished products. This has no precedent in the chip industry. Why is Arm taking this risk? The answer lies in its customer list. Over the past three years, Arm’s largest data center clients have been doing the same thing. According to publicly available data from AWS, Amazon has migrated over 50% of its EC2 compute capacity to its self-developed Graviton chips, with the latest Graviton5 reaching 192 cores. Google Cloud disclosed that its Axion chips have migrated over 30,000 internal applications, improving efficiency by 80%. Microsoft’s Cobalt 200, based on Arm Neoverse architecture, uses TSMC’s 3nm process and has 132 cores. ![](https://img-cdn.gateio.im/social/moments-c5de4f78e1-d55712aa2b-8b7abd-ceda62) These cloud providers are using Arm architecture licenses, but the chips are designed, fabricated, and deployed by themselves. Arm earns licensing fees and royalties, not chip profits. As more computing power is absorbed by these self-developed chips, Arm’s revenue ceiling in data centers becomes increasingly clear. Looking at Arm’s revenue structure over the past four years, the outline of this ceiling becomes more concrete. According to Arm’s financial reports, from FY2022 to FY2025, the company’s total revenue grew from $2.7 billion to $4 billion, with an average annual growth of about 14%. Royalties increased from $1.562 billion to $2.168 billion, and licensing income from $1.141 billion to $1.839 billion. The growth rate of royalties has slowed to around 20%, largely driven by upgrades to the mobile Armv9 architecture, not data center developments. ![](https://img-cdn.gateio.im/social/moments-bc18c9e7b5-cd622fbbbf-8b7abd-ceda62) Extrapolating this growth rate, even if licensing and royalty income grow about 20% annually, the total would reach only around $10 billion by 2031. The remaining $15 billion must come from a new business that doesn’t yet exist today. This is the arithmetic behind Arm’s decision to build its own chips. Choosing to develop chips in-house essentially means competing with its own customers. A company that sells blueprints starts building its own buildings, while its blueprint buyers have been constructing for years. This is the real background of the 136-core AGI CPU. According to The Register, this chip has a base frequency of 3.2 GHz, up to 3.7 GHz, 12 DDR5 memory channels, 6 GB/s bandwidth per core, 96 PCIe 6.0 lanes, and supports CXL 3.0. Arm positions it as “the computing foundation for the agentic AI cloud era,” focusing on CPU-side task scheduling and data flow management in AI inference, not directly competing with GPUs. The pace of market share change also tells the story. According to Omdia, by 2025, Arm-based servers will account for about 21% of global shipments, with a 70% growth rate. But within hyperscale data centers, this share is already close to 50%. The 40-year monopoly of x86 isn’t collapsing but being replaced chip by chip. The risk of Arm’s self-developed chips isn’t technological but relational. Meta’s willingness to be the first customer is partly because Meta itself lacks a mature in-house chip project like Amazon or Google. But how will Amazon, Google, and Microsoft view this? 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The explosive growth of generative AI is reshaping the content creation landscape of the internet, while also pushing intellectual property protection to an unprecedented crisis edge. AI systems are trained on vast amounts of human-created content but often do not label sources or share profits—this phenomenon is described by a16z crypto in their investment announcement as a rupture in the implicit economic contract of the internet. When creative incentives disappear, the open internet’s content supply will face systemic exhaustion. Against this backdrop, Story Protocol entered the market positioning itself as a “dedicated Layer 1 blockchain for intellectual property,” securing three consecutive funding rounds led by a16z crypto, with a total of approximately $140 million raised and a valuation reaching $2.25 billion. Its native token IP demonstrated relative price resilience amid the ongoing extreme fear in the crypto market in April 2026. This article will systematically analyze the industry structural impact and potential risks of Story Protocol from dimensions including background, technical architecture, data performance, public opinion divergence, and multi-scenario evolution. ![](https://img-cdn.gateio.im/social/moments-fadb8d8749c8bb540bdf276396a7f2aa) ## Top-tier VCs’ triple bet, IP blockchain completes a key strategic shift Story Protocol was developed by PIP Labs, with founding team members including serial entrepreneur Seung Yoon Lee (who sold Radish Fiction for $440 million to Kakao) and former DeepMind engineer Jason Zhao. Since its launch in 2023, the project has completed three major funding rounds: | Round | Amount | Lead Investor | Date | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | $29.3 million | a16z crypto | 2023 | | Series A | $25 million | a16z crypto | 2024 | | Series B | $80 million | a16z crypto | August 2025 | The Series B was led by a16z crypto, with participation from Polychain Capital and others. Angel investors include Scott Trowbridge, SVP at Stability AI; Adrian Cheng, founder of K11; and renowned digital art collector Cozomo de' Medici. To date, the total funding for Story Protocol is about $140 million, with a valuation of $2.25 billion. In February 2026, the project announced a six-month delay in its first large-scale token unlock to August, involving all locked IP tokens for early investors, team members, and internal stakeholders. Co-founder SY Lee stated in an interview that this move was inspired by Worldcoin’s extension of its lock-up period to reduce short-term circulating supply, signaling a long-term commitment. Meanwhile, the project completed a critical strategic shift: from a general IP registration platform to focusing on on-chain rights confirmation and licensing for AI training datasets. Lee explicitly stated that Story’s business model emphasizes licensing of human-generated datasets off-chain for AI training, rather than relying on on-chain gas fee revenue. As of February 2026, Story’s on-chain daily revenue was zero, but Lee considers this an “incorrect metric”—the expected value mainly derives from enterprise licensing agreements, not retail transaction fees. ## From technical validation to scenario focus: a three-year evolution of a Layer 1 Story Protocol’s development can be traced back to 2022, with key milestones including the mainnet launch by developers in January 2025, Series B completion in August 2025, joint release of AI copyright standards with OpenLedger in January 2026, and the token unlock delay and strategic shift in February 2026. This timeline reveals a three-stage evolution: from “technology validation” to “capital endorsement” and then to “scenario focus”—a trajectory closely aligned with a16z’s vision of “rebuilding the internet economy contract for the AI era” as described in their investment announcement. ## Token market and on-chain data: structural resilience amid extreme fear ### Market data overview (as of April 9, 2026) | Indicator | Data | | --- | --- | | Token Price | approximately $0.4970 | | 24-hour change | +5.14% | | Circulating Market Cap | about $175.3 million | | 24-hour trading volume | about $29.97 million | | Circulating Supply | approximately 352.7 million IP | | Total Supply | about 1.02 billion IP | | Fully Diluted Valuation | approximately $510.05 million | ### Price divergence in extreme fear As of April 8, 2026, the crypto Fear & Greed Index rose from 11 to 17 compared to the previous day, but has remained in the extreme fear zone (0–25) for the 20th consecutive day. Notably, there is a rare divergence between the index and price trend—Bitcoin broke through the key psychological level of $70,000, but the market rally was mainly driven by derivatives short squeeze, with total 24-hour liquidations around $600.87 million, of which 71.7% were shorts. In this macro sentiment environment, the IP token’s 24-hour increase of about 5.14% shows relative strength. This price resilience may be attributed to several structural factors: first, the token unlock delay until August reduces short-term circulating supply pressure; second, the strategic shift toward AI data licensing provides new narrative support; third, the repeated backing by a16z’s three consecutive investments has formed a relatively stable holder base amid extreme fear. When market sentiment is extremely pessimistic, projects with clear sector positioning and institutional backing often show stronger anti-drawdown resilience—but this is more about capital allocation logic than fundamental support, requiring further validation through ecosystem progress. ### Signals of token economic model adjustment Story Protocol uses a PoS consensus mechanism, with core utilities of IP tokens including network staking, governance voting, gas fee payments, and future AI licensing settlement media. The v1.5.2 upgrade (codenamed Horace), released at the end of January 2026 and deployed on February 6, reduced token emission rates and adjusted validator delegation multipliers. This adjustment indicates a transition from “growth incentive phase” to “sustainable economic model phase.” The decline in inflation pressure theoretically benefits token stability, but actual effects depend on ecosystem usage growth. Story’s daily on-chain revenue peaked at $43,000 in September 2025 but then dropped to zero. Co-founder Lee responded, “We deliberately set low gas fees on-chain, making it more like an IP chain than a DeFi chain.” Some market participants interpret zero on-chain revenue as a sign of lack of real use cases; the project team believes this is a business model choice—actual monetization occurs through off-chain licensing agreements, and on-chain revenue is a lagging indicator rather than a leading one. ## Support and skepticism: dual tests of AI copyright narrative ### Optimistic arguments: genuine demand, top-tier backing, and ecosystem nascence Supporters’ core logic can be summarized in three layers: **First layer: genuine demand exists.** The global intellectual property market is estimated by the World Intellectual Property Organization to exceed $80 trillion. The use of copyrighted content to train AI models without authorization has already triggered numerous lawsuits worldwide. The joint launch of on-chain copyright standards with OpenLedger on January 29, 2026, aims to enable legal use and automatic payment for creative works by AI systems. The shared on-chain standard they are building can record ownership, usage rules, and revenue sharing, shifting from “train first, litigate later” to “use only verifiably authorized content.” **Second layer: continuous backing from a16z provides credibility.** a16z crypto’s three consecutive investments from seed to Series B, totaling a top-tier level in crypto VC, signal strong confidence. Their investment announcement explicitly states that Story Protocol aims to “create foundational infrastructure supporting new economic contracts between creators and platforms.” **Third layer: initial ecosystem construction.** Over 135 projects are building on Story, covering AI, DeFi, IP finance, and creator economy sectors. Notable partners include Netflix, Claude, and Aria. Story has integrated Claude’s Model Context Protocol into SDKs, enabling AI agents to access on-chain data and perform IP registration. Additionally, the project has strategic partnerships with Google Cloud, World ID, and others. ### Cautious perspective: revenue vacuum, security incidents, and sector competition Opponents’ main arguments focus on three aspects: **Zero on-chain revenue.** After peaking in September 2025, Story’s daily revenue dropped to zero. While the team emphasizes a “business model focused on off-chain licensing,” the lack of active on-chain activity metrics complicates valuation. **Security incident.** On December 30, 2025, the IP finance platform Unleash Protocol within the Story ecosystem was attacked for $3.9 million due to governance vulnerabilities, with funds laundered via Tornado Cash. Although the underlying infrastructure of Story Protocol was unaffected, this incident exposed governance security vulnerabilities in ecosystem projects. **Sector competition.** The blockchain IP sector is not exclusive to Story—projects like Camp Network are also exploring blockchain-based traceability, immutability, and automated execution to build new IP management infrastructure. Traditional copyright agencies are also exploring blockchain notarization solutions. With a16z’s continuous backing, a founding team with successful Web2 exits and AI expertise, over 135 ecosystem partners, and delayed token unlocks easing selling pressure, these factors provide emotional support for the IP token amid extreme fear. However, on-chain activity and business model validation remain key variables for long-term value. ## Examining the narrative core: necessity of independent public chains and strategic shift logic ### Are dedicated Layer 1s necessary or redundant? Dedicated Layer 1s can provide customized execution environments for IP management—Story’s multi-core architecture includes a dedicated IP Core (tracking rights, licensing, monetization), an off-chain sync core (connecting on- and off-chain worlds), and cross-chain communication core. This specialized design is difficult to achieve with general-purpose blockchains. An independent L1 also faces “cold start” challenges—building network effects across users, developers, and liquidity simultaneously. Currently, over 135 projects are building on Story, but most are still in early development stages, lacking large-scale user validation. The size of the ecosystem does not directly equate to effective activity; future focus should be on on-chain transaction volume, active addresses, and other core metrics. ### From “all things on-chain” to “AI data licensing”: internal logic of strategic focus Story’s shift from general IP registration to AI training data licensing is strategically coherent. Traditional IP (film, music, literature) faces complex legal frameworks for on-chain management, whereas AI training data licensing scenarios can leverage smart contracts for automated enforcement, aligning naturally with blockchain’s programmable features. This strategic shift also introduces new risks: first, the enterprise AI data licensing market is still forming, with unverified demand scale and willingness to pay; second, competitors may establish partnerships earlier. Additionally, global discussions on AI copyright regulation since early 2026 have increased, and regulatory uncertainty could impact Story’s commercialization. ## Potential reshaping of industry structure: on-chain experiments turning IP into asset class ### Three pillars of paradigm shift Story Protocol attempts to turn IP into a programmable asset class—proposing a different path from traditional copyright registration and litigation—embedding ownership and licensing directly into smart contracts for automated tracking, licensing, and revenue sharing. If legally recognized, this could produce structural impacts: **Lower licensing transaction costs.** Traditional IP licensing involves complex negotiations and intermediaries; smart contract-driven programmable licenses could significantly shorten transaction processes. **Activate long-tail IP assets.** Many small creators’ works struggle to obtain effective copyright protection and monetization; on-chain IP management could lower entry barriers. **Reshape AI training data markets.** The collaboration with OpenLedger aims to establish on-chain copyright standards, potentially changing how AI models access training data—from “capture first, litigate later” to “license first, use later.” ### Capital signal spillover effects With $140 million raised and a $2.25 billion valuation, Story Protocol is at a relatively high level in the current crypto environment. a16z’s heavy investment in AI and blockchain signals sector confidence. If Story achieves breakthroughs in AI data licensing, it could attract more capital into the blockchain IP sector, creating a positive cycle of “capital→ecosystem→users→value.” Conversely, if commercial validation takes too long, narrative fatigue and token valuation corrections could occur. ## Conclusion Story Protocol exemplifies a promising exploration in crypto—integrating blockchain’s traceability, immutability, and programmability with real-world pain points like AI-era copyright crises, attempting to bridge technology and institutional frameworks. The three investments by a16z and the $140 million funding highlight top-tier VC recognition. Currently, Story has advantages in capital reserves and ecosystem breadth but faces challenges like insufficient on-chain activity and long-term business model validation. In a market still in extreme fear, the relative strength of the IP token mainly stems from structural factors (token lock-up, institutional backing, sector narrative) rather than fundamentals. Key future indicators include: post-unlock market performance, enterprise licensing progress, on-chain active addresses, and broader adoption of AI copyright standards. When technological narratives and business validation resonate, the on-chain IP management paradigm represented by Story Protocol may truly enter a phase of value realization.
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