How to acquire and redeem Steady

Steady can be acquired in two ways: directly through us (the primary market) or through public liquidity pools (the secondary market).

Primary Market: Direct from Steady

The primary market is where onboarded qualified institutional investors acquire and redeem Steady directly with us. Once you're onboarded, the process is built to be as straightforward as possible: submit your acquire or redeem request through the platform, and our team takes it from there.

Primary market access is continuous. There's no waiting list, no allocation rounds, no closed windows. Onboarded investors can submit acquire or redeem requests at any time, and they will be processed by our team. If you're onboarded, you transact when you need to.

Secondary Market: Public Liquidity Pools

For users who prefer to acquire Steady without going through full onboarding, STDY is available on public liquidity pools on Ethereum and Arbitrum. Liquidity in these pools is provided by market makers and onboarded investors. Secondary market liquidity is independent of Steady's primary market operations, and Steady does not interact with the secondary market directly.

Onboarding

To access the primary market, qualified institutional investors must complete our onboarding process. Onboarding requires full KYC/AML documentation and is subject to a minimum investment of $100,000. Every application is reviewed and approved manually by our compliance team. Once you're onboarded, you stay onboarded, with continuous access to acquire and redeem directly through us.

Why It Works This Way

The short answer: compliance. Steady operates under MiFID II as a qualified subordinated bearer bond, regulated by the EU Prospectus Regulation. That framework is what gives institutional holders the legal clarity and investor protection standards they require, and it's what allows Steady to operate as a serious, long-term product rather than a regulatory grey-zone asset that could be delisted at any moment.

That framework comes with obligations. Qualified institutional investor status, KYC/AML documentation, manual compliance review, and minimum investment thresholds aren't barriers we chose arbitrarily, they're the conditions that make a fully compliant, transparent, fairly-structured stablecoin actually possible.

We built Steady for institutions specifically because we wanted to build it right, from the ground up, without cutting corners we'd have to walk back later.

Self-Custody

Steady is fully self-custodial. You hold your tokens in your own wallet, on your own keys. We do not custody your tokens at any point. Once minted to your wallet, your STDY is yours. You can hold, transfer, use, or redeem, on your own terms.

Support

For institutional inquiries, you can reach us through our institutional sign-up platform or directly at info@steadyprotocol.io.