Lido is the dominant liquid staking protocol on Ethereum. Stake any amount of ETH and receive stETH — a liquid receipt token earning daily staking rewards — with no validator requirements.
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Staking ETH requires 32 ETH minimum, technical validator expertise, and locks capital indefinitely — excluding most users and making staked ETH unusable in DeFi.
Lido pools any amount of ETH, delegates to professional validators, and issues stETH — a fully liquid receipt token usable as DeFi collateral that earns daily staking rewards automatically.
Deepest stETH/wstETH liquidity in DeFi (Curve, Uniswap, Balancer), widest DeFi integration (collateral in Aave, Morpho, Spark, Maker), and the only LST with a staker-protective Dual Governance veto mechanism.
Lido is a Liquid Staking protocol operating on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, zkSync, Linea, Scroll. Lido is the dominant liquid staking protocol on Ethereum. Stake any amount of ETH and receive stETH — a liquid receipt token earning daily staking rewards — with no validator requirements.
DeFi Sentinel rates Lido AAA with a safety score of 97/100, indicating highest safety tier. The score reflects five risk dimensions: smart contract & technical risk, economic design & market risk, governance & centralization, sustainability & competitive position, and reputation & social trust. Lido has 6 audits on record. As with all DeFi protocols, residual risk remains and users should review the full risk breakdown before depositing.
Lido has a DeFi Sentinel safety score of 97/100 (rating AAA), last updated May 2, 2026. The score is computed across smart contract & technical risk (30%), economic design & market risk (25%), governance & centralization (20%), sustainability & competitive position (15%), and reputation & social trust (10%).
Lido is deployed on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, zkSync, Linea, Scroll.
Yes. Lido has 6 audit reports on record from firms including OpenZeppelin, Statemind, Ackee Blockchain. Audit reports and dates are linked under the Resources tab on this page.
