Lido DAO has approved a $60 million budget for 2026 to diversify beyond its core liquid staking service by launching yield vaults and institutional DeFi products. With staking yields compressing to 3-5%, Lido aims to grow revenue through new products like Lido Earn and stVaults, targeting retail and institutional users. The plan includes infrastructure upgrades and partnerships for ETFs and tokenized assets, positioning Lido to connect traditional finance with on-chain liquidity. Key goals include increasing total value locked in vaults and securing ETF approvals in the US and Europe.
Lido Finance has reintroduced its Integrated Fast Swaps feature, allowing users to instantly swap stETH into ETH, USDC, or WBTC via CoWSwap's batch auction system without waiting in Ethereum's traditional withdrawal queue. This feature completes tran...
Ethereum's Pectra upgrade raised the validator balance cap from 32 ETH to 2,048 ETH and introduced native compounding of staking rewards, aiming to reduce validator sprawl and improve efficiency. However, consolidation of validators is progressing sl...
