Sky (SKY) Protocol Advances Ecosystem Growth Amid Strategic Buybacks
Sky (SKY) is trading at $0.064493 USD with a 24-hour trading volume of $58.7 million, up 13.81% in the last 24 hours. The token ranks #45 on CoinMarketCap with a live market cap of $1.48 billion USD.
Major Protocol Developments
The Sky Frontier Foundation released its Annual State of Sky Ecosystem report for 2025, revealing an 86% increase in USDS supply to $9.86 billion, a 61.5% reduction in annualized operational expenses, and a 24.4% increase in annualized operational profits to $168 million.
Sky Protocol executed a major treasury buyback on January 20, 2026, spending $1.9 million in USDS to repurchase 31.57 million SKY tokens. This is part of a program that has deployed over $102 million since February 2025, making it one of DeFi's largest and most transparent sustained buyback initiatives.
MKR-to-SKY Migration Milestone
Coinbase announced it will support the final migration for its users, automatically swapping MKR tokens to SKY at the fixed 1:24,000 ratio during a three-day window from January 12-14, 2026. Trading, deposits, and withdrawals for MKR were suspended during this process.
Ecosystem Expansion Plans
Sky plans to introduce four more Sky Agents in 2026 and Grove is expected to launch its token in the first half of 2026. Sky Savings TVL reached a new all-time high of $4 billion, representing over 60% growth in the last 30 days.
The Obex Incubator, supported by a $37 million raise and a $2.5 billion Sky allocation, aims to incubate institutional-grade yield projects, with initial projects expected to launch and generate yield revenue for the Sky ecosystem in early 2026.
Market Performance
With a price increase of 4.50% in the last 7 days, Sky is outperforming the global cryptocurrency market which is down 10.50%, while underperforming similar Ethereum Ecosystem cryptocurrencies which are up 12.70%.