November 8: Lido launches on Base
October 17: Solana sunsetting plan published
October 16: Post-mortem on slashings published
October 12: 20 slashings occur
September 20: Lido Community Staking Podcast introduced
September 14: Partnership with Neutron
August 4: Additions to Ethereum Node Operator Set – Wave 5 (Stage 1)
July 18: OKX lists $stETH.
July 17: LEGO report for Q2-3 published.
July 1: Lido’s $stMATIC is available on Coinbase Wallet.
June 29: Collaboration with Pyth Network.
June 16: $stETH enabled for Synthetix Perp trading.
June 4: $wstETH enabled for Curve Finance’s $crvUSD.
May 15: V2 upgrade and Ethereum withdrawals goes live.
May 12: Aragon vote to implement Lido on Ethereum V2 upgrade goes live.
March 29: Lido support on Polkadot and Kusama to be discontinued on August 1 2023.
March 24: Plans for adoption of wstETH on Optimisn Chain announced.
March 10: wstETH is enabled on Polygon Chain.
March 9: Snapshot for the approval of the design for the Lido V2 upgrade passes.
February 7: Introducing Lido V2.
The two main focal points of this upgrade are:
January 6: stETH SSOVs (Single Staking Option Vaults) are now live on Dopex.
January 2:
December 24: Pilot DVT integration with Obol Network to further increase protection from single points of failure.
December 21: Upgrade of Lido on Solana to v2 live.
December 20: Snapshot vote regarding v2 of Lido’s stance on Ethereum MEV: the Lido on Ethereum Block Proposer Rewards Policy 2.0 commences.
December 15: Introducing VaNOM – Validator & Node Operator metrics, for Lido on Ethereum.
December 8: Proposal to add wstETH on Aave Optimism commenced.
December 2: Lido supported on Swissborg.
November 22: First Lido node operator community call.
November 17: LDO on Ethereum listed on Coinbase, withdrawals and deposits supported.
November 13: Vote #143 increasing the security check threshold for daily rewards has passed & has been enacted, followed by the successful Oracle report.
November 9: Due to higher-than-expected EL rewards Lido has bumped into the conservative security check limits for maximal possible stETH rebase.
November 3: All Lido on Solana validators are running smoothly and any previously on Hetzner have been migrated.
October 26:
October 21: New set of dashboards to track statistics related to Lido Node Operator mainnet block proposals and MEV extraction.
October 19:
October 7: Lido goes live on L2s – Arbitrum One and Optimism.
October 6: Proposal to optimize LEGO budget for Q4’22 commenced.
October 5: Lido LEGO Q3’22 report.
October 3: Lido on Solana integrated with Trust Wallet and Coinbase Wallet.
September 26: Proposal to include changes to Lido on Solana to better align with Solana community and create a sustainable, high-performance validator set for Solana commenced.
September 22: Two new Solana Node Operators onboarded – H2O Nodes and Kukis Global.
September 19: stMATIC goes live on Aave.
September 12: Proposal to enable wstETH to Arbitrum and Optimism passed.
September 6: Proposal to deploy a cross-chain implementation of Lido on Neutron to provide liquid staking to the Cosmos ecosystem.
August 17: Lido released a blog article on what the Merge means for Lido and stETH.
August 16: Update on Lido’s L2 Plans.
August 12: Lido integrated with three more wallets – Blockchain.com, Exodus, and Ambire Wallet.
August 11: Lido announces that all Lido Node Operators have successfully merged as part of Goerli Testnet.
August 5: Updated proposal for treasury diversification involving DragonFly passed.
August 3: Release of Lido Node Operator Portal to consolidate all information and resources related to being a Lido Node Operator.
July 27: Proposal for treasury diversification commenced.
July 18: Lido announces that stETH is launching on Layer 2.
July 15: Second stage of Lido on Polkadot launched, includes:
June 27
June 24:
June 22: Lido announces the expansion of Lido Node Operator Set on Ethereum.
June 21: LDO listed on Huobi.
June 11: Proposal to introduce change to Lido’s governance mechanism commenced.
May 31: Lido goes live on Polkadot with stDOT.
May 30: terra.lido.fi currently not functional due to network instabilities on Terra Classic, and users are asked to refrain from interacting with UI until issues are resolved.
May 25:
May 24: Proposal to support Terra v2 commenced.
May 17: LDO listed on crypto.com.
May 11: Update on bETH/Terra that it is theoretically possible to halt the network and freeze assets in an elaborate economic attack.
May 9: LDO listed on Binance.
May 6: LDO listed on Kraken.
May 4: stSOL goes live on Steakwallet (Now Omni).
April 14:
April 13: Lido Terra bug bounty with Immunefi goes live.
April 7: DeFiSaver partners with Lido to activate 2,500 LDO reward programs for users who open a new Maker vault with wstETH.
April 6: Initial $1m deposit cap on stMATIC removed. Any amount of MATIC allowed for staking.
March 29: stLUNA goes live on Edge Protocol.
March 15: steCRV vaults live. st/ETH/ETH Curve LP tokens can be used as collateral in MakerDAO and earn LDO rewards from doing it.
March 14: stSOL goes live on Port Finance.
March 4: a16z joins Lido DAO.
March 2: Lido expands to Polygon with stMATIC.
February 28: stETH live as collateral on Aave.
February 21: Relaunched vote for Lido to expand to Avalanche.
February 19: Lido goes live in Kusama.
February 8: Proposal to allocate Lido treasury assets worth up to 600 ETH to develop Uniswap V3 wstETH-wETH pair passed.
February 3:
January 29: wstETH, stSOL and stLUNA goes live on Astroport.
January 26:
January 25: Proposal for Lido to expand into Avalanche commences.
January 18: stSOL goes live on Aldrin Exchange.
January 17: Lido supported on MathWallet.
January 15: Proposal to continue LEGO for Q1 2022 passed.
January 14: stSOL pools live on Raydium.
January 8: Proposal to join the Flashbots Eth2 Working Group passed.
January 6: stSOL Covered Call vault goes live on Katana.
January 5:
January 4: Lido launches dashboard for SOL integrations.
December 31: Referral program live on Solana.
December 30: stSol goes live on Francium.
December 29: Lido year-end recap.
December 9: Proposal to raise wstETH debt ceiling on MakerDAO from 50M to 200M passed.
November 29: Lido reports its first node and validator metrics report.
November 24: Covered calls on stETH go live on Ribbon Finance.
November 17: Bybit lists stETH.
November 16: Proposal to raise wstETH debt ceiling on MakerDAO from 5M to 50M passed.
November 9: Lido hits $10B in TVL.
November 1: stETH successfully integrated as collateral asset on MakerDAO.
October 27: Lido DAO Protocol Upgrade includes:
October 26: FTX lists stETH and stSOL.
October 15: Governance poll to add stETH to MakerDAO passed.
October 12: Lido integrates with Coin98.
October 8: Lido partners with MyEtherWallet for liquid staking for Android users.
October 5: Critical vulnerability was reported to Lido bug bounty program. Response update here.
Sep 30: Updated proposal to list stETH on Aave as collateral.
Sep 17: Coinbase custody supports deposits and withdrawals for LDO.
Sep 16: Proposal to allocate 800,000 LDO as LP rewards to bootstrap stSOL liquidity across Solana DEXes passed.
Sep 9: Liquid staking live on Solana.
Aug 20: Omnibus vote is live. Topics include, funding Balancer LP rewards, Pay-out of Lido referral rewards, Funding LeDpunK DAO initiative, and enhancing max number of validators.
Aug 18: Proposal has been shared to bring MATIC liquid staking to Polygon. Vote is live.
Aug 16: Launched wETH/wstETH metastable pool on Balancer. Pool is co-incentivised with LDO and BAL.
Aug 14:
Aug 10
Aug 6: Proposal has been shared for an expansion of the Lido staking ecosystem with liquid staking for Polkadot and Kusama.
Aug 02: Proposal to list bETH (wrapped stETH on Terra) as collateral to Anchor Protocol has been submitted.
Jul 20: Lido Referral Program is introduced.
Jul 17: First staking deposit using newly generated smart contract withdrawal credentials has been submitted successfully.
Jul 16: Proposal by Shard Labs for the development of liquid staking on Polygon submitted.
Jul 15: Lido DAO has passed and enacted a vote for the upgrading of our ETH withdrawal credentials.
Jul 13: stETH goes live on Bancor.
Jul 9: Vote #76 to continue rewards for Curve LP with 3.75M LDO for the next 30 days is live.
Jul 5: Fei Protocol passed a proposal to stake 10,000 ETH with Lido.
Jun 24: Proposal for the diversification of stETH liquidity pools to grow asset productivity and integrations across the Ethereum DeFi space submitted.
Jun 21: Inverse Finance supports stETH as collateral.
Jun 17: Proposal to launch Lido referral program commenced.
Jun 14: Proposal to add stETH on Inverse Finance’s Anchor.
June 8: Proposal to continue LDO rewards for Curve LP for the next 30 days commenced.
Jun 3: Proposal by Delphi Digital for liquid staking on Aave.
May 31: Lido Open DeFi Hackathon round up.
May 22: Lido collaborates with Immunefi on a bug bounty program.
May 17: Snapshot for whitelisting LDO with co-investment of 750k BNT from Banco live.
May 14: Vote #77. Proposal to allocate 0.375% of LDO to incentivize Curve LP passed.
May 13: Omnibus vote to continue Curve LP rewards + increase Blockscape key limit to 1,000 commenced. Proposal can be found here.
May 10: Follow-up proposal and risk assessment by ParaFi Capital to onboard stETH as collateral on Aave.
May 9: Lido hits $2b+ in TVL.
May 7: Snapshot for Chorus One’s Solana proposal to Lido DAO live.
April 30: Proposal by Chorus One team for the development of a Lido-operated liquid staking protocol on the Solana blockchain commenced.
April 16: Proposal #56 passed to extend incentives on Curve for 4 weeks, ending on May 15.
April 13: Lido hits $1B in TVL.
April 8: Launch of Lido Ecosystem Grant
April 3: Proposal to sell 10% of LDO tokens to Paradigm and other strategic partners, directly from Lido DAO’s treasury, to further Lido’s stETH as the leading liquid staking solution for Ethereum commenced.
March 25: LDO/ETH pair live on Deversifi (now RhinoFi).
March 17: Liquid staking is introduced on Terra chain with Anchor Protocol.
March 10: Vote #43 passed to extend rewards for stETH/ETH LPs on Curve until April 12. 5M LDO will be distributed to liquidity providers.
March 9: stETH live on ARCx. Users can provide stETH as collateral to mint STABLEx.
March 8: Proposal by ParaFi Capital to add stETH as collateral on Compound Finance commenced.
March 4:
February 23: Lido purchases slashing cover for 196,749.85 sETH from Unslashed Finance.
February 12: Vote #28 to distribute 0.5% (5M) LDO within the next 30 days to Curve stETH liquidity providers passed.
February 9: Proposal passed to onboard stETH as collateral for MakerDAO.
February 4: Lido DAO Treasury Fund Overview
February 1: Blog article of Mechanics of stETH
January 25: LDO onboarded to Sushiswap.
January 21: Trademark usage issue of stETH.
January 18: Proposal to add stETH to Aave, allowing users to lend and borrow against stETH.
January 10: Vote #28 commences, proposing to distribute 0.5% (5M) LDO within the next 30 days to Curve stETH liquidity providers, proportionally to the provided liquidity.
January 9: Lido staking integrated with Argent wallet.
January 7: Lido staking rewards are live.
January 6: LDO token goes live.
January 5:
December 29:
December 28: Lido goes live, staking goes live.
December 13-16: Lido Withdrawal Key Generation Ceremony.
November 26: Lido Testnet Launch on Goerli testnet.
October 2020: Discord is open and the first blog post introducing Lido was released:
