The since-deleted proposal in Lido’s governance discussion board floated the concept of income being distributed to LDO stakers.
A brand new member of Lido Finance’s governance discussion board, calling themselves Lidosaviour, managed to kick off a ten% rally in LDO after proposing that the main liquid staking protocol begin sharing income with token holders.
The submit has since been deleted, prompting some to surmise that Lidosaviour doubtless held a protracted place in LDO and hoped to revenue from constructive worth motion. For the reason that Uniswap Basis floated the concept of sharing buying and selling charges with UNI stakers on Friday, income sharing has turn into a scorching matter.
“A brief story of a brand new extremely worthwhile technique,” posted Googly.
Regardless of their probably nefarious intentions, nevertheless, Lidosaviour clearly put some thought into the now-deleted proposal, which referred to as for introducing an LDO staking module and buyback program that may align incentives for all Lido ecosystem members by means of elevated token utility for LDO.
The proposal additionally aimed to set a minimal dimension for the LidoDAO insurance coverage fund at roughly 6,000 ETH and new staking phrases, together with a 14-day cooldown interval for unstakers, and adjustments in case of slashing occasions.
Whereas controversy surrounds Lido for its purported centralization – and inherent danger for the general Ethereum ecosystem – it nonetheless instructions a whopping 30.5% of all staked ETH, in line with DefiLlama.
