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For the first time in @LidoFinance's history, less than 90% of the protocol's TVL is controlled by Curated Operators. Community and Home stakers are quietly gaining share, making the protocol even more reliable, decentralized, and robust! Upwards only

Lido Earn: First-Loss Protection🛡️ Dedicated protocol reserves now act as first-loss protection to cover user deposits. Live on stake.lido.fi/earn. ↓

Most yield products put users first in line for losses. No accountability. No skin in the game. Lido Earn flips this. Lido DAO has allocated $5M in treasury reserves to Earn vaults. User deposits are only affected after this allocation is exhausted. Two vaults. One for ETH-based assets, one for stablecoins.

EarnETH: Ethereum DeFi made simple Access rewards from leading DeFi protocols with daily rewards, automatic compounding and optimal capital efficiency. Built on staked ETH. stake.lido.fi/earn/eth

DeFi, simplified: Introducing MetaVaults x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

🔥 The Ethereum Foundation Mandate: "We're here to defend the cypherpunk roots of Ethereum so it remains neutral, unstoppable, and user-controlled forever — and then we plan to step back." 1. Main goal of Ethereum To be a decentralized tool that gives users full self-sovereignty (you control your own identity, money, actions, and agents without anyone else having the final say). 2. Core non-negotiable rules (called CROPS) Every part of Ethereum's development must protect these four things together (they cannot be traded away): - Censorship Resistance — No one (governments, companies, etc.) can block or stop transactions/actions. - Open Source (and free as in freedom) — The code is completely public, anyone can use/copy/improve it. - Privacy — Users can keep their activities and data private when they want to. - Security — The system stays safe and hard to attack/hack over the long term. 3. Role of the Ethereum Foundation Acts only as a steward/guardian (not owner or boss). Its job is to protect Ethereum's promise and make sure it stays true to the above values. 4. What EF will focus on Work on the hard, irreplaceable things that others in the ecosystem usually cannot or will not do long-term (protocol upgrades, research, critical tools, etc.). 5. Long-term plan EF wants to become less and less necessary over time → Ethereum should pass the "walkaway test" (the network keeps running perfectly even if EF disappears tomorrow).

Proposal: Introducing Identified DVT Clusters (IDVTC) to Lido CSM This proposal brings a tailored bonded DVT solution to the Lido Community Staking Module, accelerating DVT adoption and furthering the resilience of CSM. ↓

Lido has shared a proposal to introduce Identified DVT Clusters in the Community Staking Module This would allow community stakers to team up and run Distributed Validators with Obol, unlocking better capital efficiency and operational resilience ✊

MetaVaults are live on @LidoFinance. Here we'll break down why this matters. Speakers for "DeFi, simplified: Introducing MetaVaults" @etn1337 – Head of Ecosystem, Mellow @defiyaco – Head of ETH Products, Lido Earn March 17th, 16:00 CET. Join the livestream on @mellowprotocol.

EarnUSD: Transparent, onchain USD rewards The first Lido stablecoin product. Instant access to USD-denominated DeFi rewards with transparent asset selection and risk controls. stake.lido.fi/earn/usd

Earning should be SIMPLE! With @LidoFinance, ETH staking is already super simple. Now earning is simple as well. No hustle. No doubts. No choosing for ages. Just use Lido EARN!

DeFi, simplified. Introducing two new vaults: EarnETH & EarnUSD One vault for ETH-based capital. One for stablecoins. Now live on stake.lido.fi/earn ↓

Lido is joining the @synthesis_md agent hackathon 🤖 Build agentic applications that interact with Ethereum’s largest staking protocol, from staking automation to DeFi integrations and validator tooling. ↓

Staked ETH is Mega Bridge your staked ETH to @MegaETH with just a few clicks to access liquid Ethereum staking rewards across the MegaETH ecosystem. ↓

Client diversity remains well distributed relative to the broader Ethereum network, with a slightly broader distribution across clients. • No Consensus client exceeds 33% • Five Execution Layer clients are actively used • Multi-node setups: 27.86% of validators

Curated Node Operator distribution reached near-perfect balance. By the end of 2025: • 36 Curated Node Operators • Validator allocations are evenly distributed • Gini coefficient: 0.001 • HHI: 0.0278 This reflects extremely low concentration and strong alignment with the 1% soft cap objective in Lido’s Operator Set Strategy.

Lido Validator & Node Operator Metrics: Q4 2025 Across operators, infrastructure, clients, and geographies, the Lido validator ecosystem continued to improve and further decentralize Ethereum staking. blog.lido.fi/lido-validator… ↓

Distributed Validator Technology scaled across all modules. By the end of 2025, 22,233 validators were run using DVT, representing 711,456 ETH (+537,792 ETH YoY). DVT-powered Lido validators now account for ~1.99% of total Ethereum stake, strengthening fault tolerance across the network.

Institutional access to @LidoFinance stVaults. Multi-operator. On-demand liquidity via stETH. Live on mainnet 🟢 svm.northstake.dk

Presenting the 'Staking Vault Manager' by @Northstake_dk. An institutional gateway to Lido V3. • Create & manage staking vaults • Select & diversify across node operators • Monitor vault performance • Access stETH liquidity Now live on mainnet. ↓