Modules Updates

Community Staking Module

CSM goes fully permissionless

The DAO vote to enable the permissionless phase and increase the share limit for CSM has passed! On-chain vote to execute these two actions is expected to start in January.

CSM package is now available on Dappnode!

Features of the Lido CSM package on Dappnode:

• Receive warnings and notifications on Telegram
• Track multiple node operators: monitor many operators with a simple UI login
• Automatic ejector: Validators exit automatically, and you’ll be notified!

Coming soon:

• Performance tab: monitor validator performance.
• Performance notifications: get alerts based on Lido thresholds.

Explore the full documentation.

Simple DVT Module

Distributed Validator Vault

• Based on it’s prior ATH TVL of 10,275 ETH, the DVV has driven over 320 validators worth of stake to CSM and the SDVT modules. Currently the vault has 7,031 ETH staked, with a 16x effective multiplier on Obol points based on the higher number of Obol validators running via the Simple DVT Module.

Lido x Obol

Lido x SSV

Node Operator Community

Node Operator Community Call

The Defiant Podcast

Community sentiment around raising the gas limit

In December a public discussion around increasing gas limit was started to assess node operator sentiment and willingness to participate in an effort to increase the gas limit. Please share your feedback if you haven’t already.

Node Operator Set Section on the Lido Main Page

The Node Operators section on the Lido Main Page is back!

• Insights into how 400+ (and growing) Node Operators use the Lido protocol, with links to detailed validator metrics
• Summaries of how different modules work to power Lido, and detailed module explanations a click away!

Lido Community Staking Tribes

Lido Community Staking Tribes (LCST) initiative has started! The initiative is designed to empower Ethereum-aligned organizations and DAOs to support their contributors in becoming solo stakers using the Lido Community Staking Module.

What the LCST Initiative Offers

• Participants benefit from:
• Nominating 4+ team members to become solo stakers.
• Co-branded staking hardware.
• Training, workshops & support from the Community Lifeguards.
• Collaborative promotion of the initiative to advance solo staking awareness.

Welcome the first participant of the initiative: Drop, a cross-chain liquid staking protocol and valued Lido Alliance Member. In December, four Drop contributors began their solo staking journeys, supported by co-branded Dappnode hardware and guided by the Lido Community Lifeguards.

Join the Q1 2025 Cohort! Sign up to collaborate with the Lido Community Lifeguards and empower your team to secure Ethereum’s future. Reach out to the CLGs on X: @stakesaurus, @entigdd, or @Stake_Cat.

Community Grants

We started a round of grants for CSM Tooling, which ends on February 14th ‘25. During December we completed a first batch of grants that included:

• A retroactive grant for Validator-Swarm, a CLI tool for managing CSM validators.
• CSM Rewards Calculator
• A CSM integration into ethseer.io

And two meetups:

• A CSM Workshop by the SEEDOrg community during Aleph de Verano by Crecimiento in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• A node running meetup in Nigeria by the NodeBridge community. The first one we support in Africa!

Solo Stakers Guild

Stakesaurus organised the 2 planned Solo Stakers Guilds for December in Malaysia and Taiwan.

Validator Exits

Validator Exits Policy was updated to the Standard Node Operator Protocol (SNOP) on Validator Exits 2.0 via DAO vote.

The main changes include:

• Refactoring of the structure in an attempt to create a template structure for all SNOPs, and re-organization of some ancillary content to appendices
• Extension of the scope to NOs using the Simple DVT Module and/or Community Staking Module
• Definition of the terminology specific to SDVTM and CSM
• Introduction of the validator exit order of SR 2.0
• Introduction of SM stake share limits and explanation of their effect on exit priority
• Introduction of NO target limits and explanation of their effect on exit priority
• Clearer description of mechanism through which an NO validator exit request status of delinquent can recover to an in good standing status
• Clearer explanation, on a per-SM basis, of validator exit requirements and penalties for non-conformance as per the protocol code

LidoConnect 2024

The full list of LidoConnect talks and panels is out!

Check out some of them right here or head over the playlist on YouTube

Santa, I want to become a Node Operator

Santa has been busy making dreams come true! Throughout December, Lido community was writing letters to Santa, hoping to snag a shiny new Dappnode Home x Lido.