Lido Impact Staking

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

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Real impact requires sustainable funding, and we will show you exactly how it’s being explored today. 💡 ​In our first episode of Philanthropy 3.0, we sit down with @foundation_gsr, one of the first institutional donors to put this sustainable funding model into practice. They will share why they made the leap, what they've learned, and why they believe the future of philanthropy doesn't have to be a choice between financial returns and real-world impact. Join us LIVE next Wednesday 🌎 luma.com/9ufen62h

With 950K ETH in the staking queue, from time of deposit you need to wait at least half a month to start seeing staking rewards, and they’re locked on the Consensus Layer. With @LidoFinance stETH, you’ll see staking rewards the next day, and retain full use of your ETH in DeFi.

In 2026, I plan to be fully back to decentralized social. If we want a better society, we need better mass communication tools. We need mass communication tools that surface the best information and arguments and help people find points of agreement. We need mass communication tools that serve the user's long-term interest, not maximize short-term engagement. There is no simple trick that solves these problems. But there is one important place to start: more competition. Decentralization is the way to enable that: a shared data layer, with anyone being able to build their own client on top. In fact, since the start of the year I've been back to decentralized social already. Every post I've made this year, or read this year, I made or read with firefly.social, a multi-client that covers reading and posting to X, Lens, Farcaster and Bluesky (though bluesky has a 300 char limit, so they don't get to see my beautiful long rants). But crypto social projects has often gone the wrong way. Too often, we in crypto think that if you insert a speculative coin into something, that counts as "innovating", and moves the world forward. Mixing money and social is not inherently wrong: Substack shows that it's possible to create an economy that supports very high-quality content. But Substack is about _subscribing to creators_, not _creating price bubbles around them_. Over the past decade, we have seen many many attempts at incentivizing creators by creating price bubbles around them, and all fail by (i) rewarding not content quality, but pre-existing social capital, and (ii) the tokens all going to zero after one or two years anyway. Too many people make galaxy-brained arguments that creating new markets and new assets is automatically good because it "elicits information", when the rest of their product development actions clearly betray that they're not actually interested in maximizing people's ability to benefit from that information. That is not Hayekian info-utopia, that is corposlop. Hence, decentralized social should be run by people who deeply believe in the "social" part, and are motivated first and foremost by solving the problems of social. The Aave team has done a great job stewarding Lens up to this point. I'm excited about what will happen to Lens over the next year, because I think the new team coming in are people who actually are interested in the "social": even back when the decentralized social space barely existed, they were trying to figure out how to do encrypted tweets. I plan to post more there this year. I encourage everyone to spend more time in Lens, Farcaster and the broader decentralized social world this year. We need to move beyond everyone constantly tweeting inside a single global info warzone, and into a reopened frontier, where new and better forms of interaction become possible.

"More projects should explicitly think about not just a "business model" - how they bring in resources to support the work that they are doing - but also a "decentralization model" - how they avoid concentrating power in themselves, and the risks associated with having such power." "[...] In Ethereum, one good example of this is the decentralized staking pool Lido. Lido has about 24% of the total ETH staked supply today, but people are much less scared of it than of they would be of almost anything else having 24% of the stake. This is because Lido is not a single actor: it is an internally decentralized DAO with several dozen operators, and a "dual governance" design that gives staked ETH holders the ability to veto decisions." - 'Balance of Power' by @VitalikButerin