Zest Protocol levered Bitcoin staking vault begins accruing yield on Stacks
Stacks (STX)
Editor:
Eugene Serbin
cryptocurrency.com.tr reports that Zest Protocol's levered Bitcoin staking vault has begun accruing yield on Stacks. This development highlights Zest Protocol's innovation in Bitcoin staking, which could enhance DeFi's appeal. The activity has the potential to attract more investors to Bitcoin-based financial products. The report originally appeared on Crypto Briefing.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for STX, measured when this story was written up on 18 September 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
STX is trading at $0.2513 with a spot volume of $1,162,269 over the last 24 hours. The 24-hour buy ratio stands at 51.0%, indicating that buying pressure has slightly exceeded selling pressure over the full day. However, this momentum is fading in the short term, as the 1-hour buy ratio dropped to 38.6% and the 4-hour ratio sits at 46.0%. Volume Delta confirms this shift, showing a net outflow of -$14,157 in the last hour and -$15,087 over four hours, compared to a positive +$21,200 for the day. This suggests that while buyers dominated earlier, recent trades have been predominantly sales.
The latest daily buy ratio of 51.8% sits at the 61st percentile of the last 324 days, against a median of 50.8% - ordinary for this coin.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for STX, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Over the preceding week, STX experienced a price change of -0.8% with a total Volume Delta of -$20,389. Today's 24-hour buy ratio of 51.0% is only marginally higher than the 7-day average of 50.5%, differing by just 0.5 points. Trading activity is subdued relative to the norm, with spot volume at 0.63x the weekly average. Net buying occurred on only 4 of the past 7 days, indicating that this is an ordinary day for the coin with no significant deviation from recent trends.