Lido
Liquid staking protocol: deposit ETH to receive stETH (wstETH on L2s) and earn staking rewards while keeping the staked position liquid and composable across DeFi.
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Good for
- earning ETH staking rewards while staying liquid
- using stETH/wstETH as DeFi collateral
- restaking liquid staking tokens
- treasury yield on ETH
Avoid for
- users who want to run their own validator (solo staking)
- use cases that cannot tolerate LST depeg or smart-contract risk
- chains where wstETH has no canonical bridge or liquidity
82/100
Readiness measures how much verified integration surface exists for builders and agents. It does not mean the protocol is easy to use — integration difficulty is tracked separately.
Docs URL present
SDK URL present
No template
No support channel
Liquid staking (stETH): ecosystem_primitive; wstETH (wrapped, L2-portable): production_surface
Has a production-ready capability
Protocol provenance confidence is high
4 chain(s) (capped at 5)
Last verified 16 day(s) ago
No open critical issues
No hard caps applied.
Capabilities
Liquid staking (stETH) production-ready
Best for: staking ETH for rewards without locking liquidity, earning yield on idle ETH
- stETH can trade at a discount or premium to ETH; peg and redemption timing depend on market and withdrawal conditions.
wstETH (wrapped, L2-portable) production-ready
Best for: using a non-rebasing LST as DeFi collateral, bridging staked value to L2s
- wstETH liquidity and canonical bridges vary by chain; confirm per target chain.
Composes with
aave supporting_protocol supports
wstETH is widely used as collateral in Aave money markets to borrow against a staked position.
eigencloud supporting_protocol supports
stETH/wstETH can be restaked via EigenCloud (EigenLayer) to help secure AVSs for additional rewards, with added slashing risk.
uniswap supporting_protocol supports
Deep stETH/wstETH pairs provide liquidity and an exit path without waiting for withdrawals.
safe operational_controls supports
Hold and manage staked positions from a Safe treasury under policy controls.
Provenance
Last verified 2026-06-16 by composewith.eth research (lido.fi, docs.lido.fi, and lidofinance/core live-verified via WebFetch 2026-06-16) (confidence: high). Score computed by score.v2.