Lido
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Billions of dollars in bitcoin are flying across the blockchain as price stops just short of record highs
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TVL has begun to fall out of favor, so which metric can be used to rank this year’s top DeFi projects?
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Lido DAO approved a bridging standard to Base as canonical shortly after rebuffing LayerZero’s bridging standard
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Some say Lido’s 31% share of Ethereum liquid staking is troublesome, while a Lido contributor insists it’s ecosystem-aligned
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The proposal’s opponents say Lido asked for too much money and the staking protocol creates a centralization risk for Ethereum
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Lido DAO will govern bridging contracts following the initial bridging implementation of wstETH onto Cosmos
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Centralized exchanges have failed to hold a monopoly over Ethereum staking “specifically because of Lido,” David Rodriguez says
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Lido has a lead that looks ‘very difficult to beat’ on Ethereum, but doesn’t seem to have traction on other chains
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The fate of Lido on Solana now hangs in the balance, hinging on a community vote slated to take place in four weeks
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The depressed TVL in DeFi protocols may be due to lower yield offerings and recent security issues in the ecosystem
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The new architecture allows Lido to work “like a marketplace of stake allocation,” the liquid staking protocol’s master of validators says
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The investment management company has had other DAO tokens in its DeFi fund before, with Uniswap’s UNI being a top asset
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Lido was the solution to Ethereum’s centralization risk, but the remedy has become too successful, it seems
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Liquid staking providers gain traction, as users prefer greater liquidity and flexibility from their staked ether
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The V2 upgrade will introduce withdrawals and a staking router to simplify the crypto on-ramp
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Adapted from Aave, Spark Lend will directly connect end users to the Maker stablecoin
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Paxos has burned so much BUSD that Lido staked ETH is now the tenth largest crypto by market cap
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TVL is easily affected by market conditions, so the carnage left by FTX’s wake could be to blame
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