Verio is an IP trust engine and liquid-staking protocol built on Story that applies proof-of-stake principles to intellectual property validation and governance. Verio's Twitter Score is 19 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #57,823 among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Verio was founded by Tony Zhang, who serves as its Founder and CEO, and is backed by The Data Foundation. The protocol positions itself as the financial and legal governance layer for the Story IP regime, targeting what it describes as an $80 trillion global intellectual property market. Users stake Story's native IP token to receive vIP, a yield-bearing liquid staking token that accrues staking rewards and can be deployed across DeFi and IPFi applications.
Verio extends its model through restaking: holders of vIP can restake onto individual IP assets, earning additional yield while simultaneously signaling those assets' legitimacy and value within the ecosystem. The protocol's IP curation mechanism lets users and creators register IP assets, with the volume of vIP staked functioning as a community legitimacy signal rather than a guaranteed proof of ownership. Its architecture covers delegation, pooled staking, rewards, withdrawals, insurance, IP-asset stake pools, creator and operator registries, lockups, and incentives.
Verio collects protocol fees at several points in the vIP lifecycle, including on staking rewards, unstaking, restaking withdrawals, and IP-asset tips, with proceeds directed toward protocol costs, insurance, ecosystem liquidity, and ongoing development. The protocol also documents risks for participants, among them validator-slashing exposure, vIP-to-IP exchange-rate risk on decentralized exchanges, and a 14-day unbonding period for users who unstake rather than swap. Verio has published 835 posts and has been mentioned by 50 accounts a total of 102 times.
Who follows Verio on X?
The accounts that follow Verio include 85 founders, 21 angel investors, 69 influencers and 3 VCs, among them Mario Nawfal, 0xMaki, Calvin, zac.eth, The DATA Foundation and Alex Salnikov.