Key Highlights: Lido Finance has organized an industry event scheduled for tomorrow dedicated to Ethereum staking innovations and infrastructure upgrades. Key agenda items include strengthening validator operations through ValOS, the official launch of the 0x02 CSM, and discussions surrounding the proposed Lido Lend initiative. The initiative aims to expand staking options, enhance validator reliability, and ...
Key Highlights Ethereum core specifications maintainer Justin Traglia has merged a fix addressing a potential deposit-handling vulnerability across liquid staking protocols. Researcher avsetsin evaluated how platforms including Lido, Origin, and Rocket Pool handle deposits, noting the conclusions were conditional code findings with zero losses reported. The update reorders pending deposits by withdrawal credentials to ensure ...
Key Highlights Lido introduces a new module projecting capital multipliers between 2.18x and 2.26x compared to solo staking, assuming full 2,048 ETH effective validator balances. The deployment begins with an initial stake-share cap of 0.01% of Lido Core’s total value locked (TVL), funding around 32 seed deposits before capacity expansions. Existing node operators can retain ...
Key Highlights: Swell paused deposits and withdrawals for its liquid staking and restaking tokens, swETH and rswETH, following reports of suspicious activity and artificially inflated exchange rates. Security researcher Spreek warned that admin keys appeared compromised with four malicious upgrade contracts deployed, creating a potential risk to approximately 2,500 ETH ($5.9 million), though the contracts ...
Key Highlights More than 44.1 million ETH—representing over 36% of the network’s total supply—is actively staked to secure Ethereum, led by massive treasury stakes such as BitMine’s roughly $12 billion position. Staking yields currently hover between 2.2% and 2.58%, offering returns comparable to traditional benchmarks like the Eurosystem’s 2.5% deposit facility, yet token price volatility ...
Key Highlights A single redemption transaction burned 776,000 bOSMO and initiated the unbonding of roughly 1.3 million OSMO to prevent continuous, overpaid contract drains. Affected token holders captured in the block 72,237,940 snapshot will receive automatic compensation at a rate of 1.1174 OSMO per bOSMO once unbonding concludes around late October. Liquidity providers face ongoing ...
Key Highlights VanEck has withdrawn its proposal for an exchange-traded fund designed to directly hold Lido’s liquid-staked ether token, stETH. The proposed vehicle aimed to track the price of stETH minus fund expenses, allowing investors to access rebasing staking rewards through traditional brokerage accounts. While other funds like the Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF (ETHE) offer ...
Key Highlights: Demand to enter Ethereum staking has cooled, with roughly 1.5 million ETH ($4 billion) in the entry queue and an estimated 25-day wait, down from peak levels in early September. A significant portion of recent validator exit activity was driven by MetaMask taking validators offline following a September 30 security incident, though investigations ...
Key Highlights The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance issued new FAQs Thursday clarifying how token buybacks, liquid staking receipts, and ongoing blockchain development are analyzed under the Howey test and federal securities laws. Staff stated that for a functional crypto network, announcing a buyback of a non-security token does not by itself constitute a promise ...
Lido, a dominant force in the liquid staking sector, has announced a significant restructuring of the fees associated with its EarnETH vault. Under the newly updated model, the assets-under-management (AUM) fee is being slashed to a maximum cap of 0.5%, while the performance fee is set to increase to a maximum of 20%. To ease ...