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Lista DAO (LISTA)

Lista DAO is a DeFi protocol on BNB Chain and other supported networks built around BNB liquid staking, collateralized borrowing, and lending. LISTA is its governance token. The protocol’s 2026 Tokenomics 2.0 update retired veLISTA and shifted the stated governance and revenue model, so older descriptions of locked veLISTA rewards are no longer current.

Ticker Value
Ticker LISTA
Price $0.07944
Market Cap $34.166M
24h Change +2.9%

CoinGecko values are live where the widget loads; fallback values captured 2026-10-22 04:22 UTC. Market data can change quickly.

How It Works

Lista combines several DeFi products. Users can stake BNB for slisBNB, a liquid staking token, or deposit supported collateral to borrow lisUSD through collateralized debt positions. Lista Lending also offers lending markets. These products have different contracts, risks, and yield sources; the existence of one product does not make the others risk-free.

LISTA’s role is governance and protocol-level utility. The protocol’s latest Tokenomics 2.0 announcement says holders can vote without locking tokens and adds holder benefits such as delayed liquidation on eligible lending positions. Those benefits are subject to the product’s rules and do not make LISTA a claim on protocol revenue.

Tokenomics and the Tokenomics 2.0 Change

CoinGecko lists LISTA’s maximum supply as 1 billion. Lista’s Tokenomics 2.0 announcement says LIP-024 passed and the veLISTA staking model was retired: staked LISTA became redeemable without a new vesting period, and governance moved to holding LISTA rather than locking it for veLISTA. The same announcement redirects revenue formerly shared with veLISTA stakers toward LISTA buybacks and says the protocol is moving toward the 800-million maximum supply direction set by LIP-021. That is a stated direction; CoinGecko still lists a 1-billion maximum, so this page does not claim the cap has already fallen to 800 million.

Emissions previously assigned to veLISTA are described by the project as funding user rewards, growth initiatives, and ecosystem campaigns. Buybacks do not guarantee a price increase or prove that tokens have already been permanently burned. Current incentives, lending rewards, and collateral yields can change and should be checked at the relevant product before use.

Uses and Limits

Users may encounter LISTA through governance, lending incentives, or holder-specific product features. slisBNB can represent staked BNB and may be used in other DeFi strategies, which adds smart-contract, liquidity, price-depeg, and liquidation risks. lisUSD is described as a collateral-backed stablecoin, not a purely algorithmic asset; collateral values and market conditions can still put its peg or borrowers at risk.

Risks and Open Questions

Lista’s public documentation is unevenly updated: some older pages still describe veLISTA as active, while the 2026 Tokenomics 2.0 announcement says it has been retired. For tokenomics, use the newer announcement and treat legacy reward tables as historical. Protocol risks include smart-contract bugs, oracle failures, collateral volatility, liquidation, governance capture, stablecoin depegs, and changing reward policy.

Social Media Sentiment

The public Listapie forum thread on LIP-024 discusses whether the community should support replacing veLISTA with the simpler Tokenomics 2.0 model. The proposal thread is useful because it concerns the actual governance change, but forum participation is self-selected and cannot represent every LISTA holder. The proposal’s passage and the protocol’s implementation announcement are stronger evidence of the adopted change than the comments are of broad sentiment. Read the LIP-024 community discussion.

Last updated: 2026-10

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