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Stakely, a blockchain infrastructure provider operating validators since 2020 (infrastructure distributed across Europe), launched two products built on stVaults, Lido's modular staking infrastructure. The live public staking vault lets anyone stake ETH with Stakely-operated validators, paired with Lido's EarnETH strategy, with institutional staking also offered.
Lido launched the 0x02 CSM testnet, opening a permissionless, capital-efficient route for Ethereum node operators to run 2048-ETH validators via the Community Staking Module (CSM). The release follows Lido Core's earlier mainnet upgrade adding 0x02 validator support, and lets operators start testing the new flow now.
Lido Earn vaults are now offered on Jumper, letting users earn ETH and USD through a fully on-chain (DeFi) route. Lido confirmed the earnETH vault is live on Jumper, echoing Jumper's '100% DeFi, 0% complexity' framing and expanding access to Lido's Earn products.
Lido DAO contributors are funding ValOS (Validator Operations Standard), a community-driven framework aiming to raise the bar for secure, resilient and verifiable Ethereum validator operations, now announced via Lido's blog. LEGO approved $75,200 (DAI) over six months — 50% to commence work and 50% released on successful delivery of the Assurance Upgrade, subject to the Lido DAO NOM workstream review, with an additional 60k following evaluation of early assurance test cases.
Lido's H1 2026 product update shows total staking TVL at 9.13M ETH at the half-year close, rising to 9.6M ETH by 25 August. The Lido Core Upgrade—Curated Module v2, Staking Router v3 and CSM v3—shipped in July with 0x02 validator support, and the DAO take rate reached 6.15% in H1, up 24%.
Lido flagged EIP-8363, the 'Tapered Issuance Burn' proposal, which would taper validator rewards toward zero as the staked share approaches 50% of ETH supply. Lido notes the proposal would materially compress staking rewards across the market, affecting its future, and says the DAO can still respond as the debate over issuance continues.
NEST, Lido's automated, rule-based LDO buyback mechanism, is live on mainnet after the Aug 5–8 on-chain vote. Under the LDO Accumulation Program, 2,320 stETH have been deployed, returning 14.8M LDO to the treasury, and outstanding LDO supply is down 1.8% to 879M. The mechanism links protocol performance to LDO via rules approved in a May Snapshot vote, funding regular buybacks from protocol revenue.
Lido is updating the EarnETH Vault fee structure, lowering fixed fees while increasing flexibility and tying a larger share of fees to vault performance. The shift moves EarnETH from a mostly platform-based structure (1% AUM + 10% performance) toward more performance-linked fees.
Lido is extending the 0% infrastructure fee on stVaults through the current period, keeping it at zero for all stVaults with 250+ ETH run by Identified Node Operators. The extension comes while the Ethereum entry queue remains long, with the fee waiver running through August 31, 2026 (announced as extended until October 31).
The biggest evolution of Lido Core has launched on mainnet, introducing the new Decentralization Operator type within Curated Module v2 (Staking Router v3). First effects are already visible in the VaNOM dashboard as Curated operators compete for the new operator type.
Lido deployed wstETH (wrapped staked ETH) on Ethereum, a non-rebasing wrapper used widely across DeFi protocols.
LDO, the governance token for the Lido DAO, went live with 1 billion tokens minted; a small airdrop (0.4%) was distributed to early Lido stakers.
Lido's protocol went live on Ethereum mainnet, letting users stake ETH and receive the liquid staking token stETH, shortly after the Ethereum 2.0 Beacon Chain launched.
The initial Lido team members raised $2 million in December 2020 to continue building the liquid staking protocol.