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Lido is the largest liquid-staking protocol for Ethereum, letting users stake ETH while receiving liquid stETH tokens usable elsewhere in DeFi.
VanEck told the SEC on Wednesday that it will not distribute shares of its proposed Lido staked Ether ETF. Crypto Briefing reported that no shares were ever issued, so the withdrawal leaves no holders to unwind.
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Ethereum's activation cap of 256 ETH per epoch had 1,282,776 ETH waiting an estimated 22 days, 6 hours on Oct. 15, according to Validator Queue. EIP-8061 would speed exits but keep that limit, so new stakers still idle for about three weeks.
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MetaMask sent an estimated 565,056 ETH of validators toward exit after about $923 in block tips was diverted, Bitquery data cited by CryptoSlate shows. Re-staking all of it would use 9.8 days of Ethereum's entry capacity, inside a round trip Lido puts at up to 45 days.
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Security firms traced about 1,783 wstETH, worth more than $6 million, out of a Base vault on Oct. 4 whose owner is an anonymous 3-of-7 Safe. With Base and Aave's core contracts not blamed, the loss lands on a custody setup whose seven signers no one has publicly identified.
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Blast and Abstract are closing their Ethereum layer 2 chains after both operators said running costs outran revenue, Igloo by tens of millions of dollars. Cheaper blob space lowered rollups' posting bills but not the cost of running a chain.
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Blast is closing its Ethereum layer-2 after the chain earned $1,793 last month, down from about $3.5 million in June 2024. Revenue fell far faster than deposits, a pattern that fits an airdrop-era chain better than an industry-wide squeeze.
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MetaMask's validator key rotation after its Sept. 30 breach sends clients' staked ETH through exit and re-entry queues of about 45 days each. Joseph Lubin says self-custodied wallets were never within the attackers' reach, so the cost of the incident lands on staking clients.
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Lido's proposed 0x02 module asks permissionless operators for a 32 ETH first bond, more than 13 times the 2.4 ETH its default route requires. Measured per ETH posted, the larger key catches up only after Lido's queue funds it with about 747 ETH of stake, so the speed of allocation sets the return.
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Core Lightning told operators on October 2 to upgrade from version 26.06.7 or older after reports that attackers are targeting unpatched nodes. MetaMask's precautionary exit from Lido that week lost no reported funds but will likely forgo rewards on ETH that can take up to 45 days to return.
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MetaMask is pulling its Ethereum validators out of Lido after an infrastructure compromise, putting the stake on a round trip Lido says can take up to 45 days. The stake earns no rewards on the way, and stETH holders share that cost, for an attack whose only documented theft so far is diverted block rewards.
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Bitwise ran the first consolidation on Lido Core in September, part of a migration of roughly 8.4 million staked ETH that the Lido DAO approved in July and expects to finish by Q1 2027. All 34 curated operators now face ETH bonds.
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The Contract Powers Registry classifies owner powers by matching function names against categories, so redistributeLockedAmount produced no entry at all. Since 19 September every page lists the functions it cannot name.
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The Miami treasury company is sending about 106,000 ETH, roughly 12% of its stack, into a receipt token custodied at Anchorage. Passive holding is becoming collateral.
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