Opening a New Era of POS: Liquid Staking
summary
Liquid staking issues, designs and deployments: Lido controls about 33% of staked ETH, runs a permissioned operator set of 31 operators, and ships Lido V2 after seven audits totaling ~$800k; one user withdrew 400,000 stETH in three days via the upgrade. Alluvial targets institutional receipts with seven integrations (Coinbase, Kraken, Figment, custodians) to meet redemption and compliance needs. Middleware like Obol and SSV enable distributed validator tech to lower operator bonds, reduce downtime risk, and onboard many smaller node operators.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:51Liquid staking and use cases
- 3:56Future of liquid staking market
- 7:51Liquid staking tokens in ETFs
- 12:30Lido’s 33% stake debate
- 17:45Why Lido dominates
- 21:57Aluvial’s competitor approach
- 25:27Middleware for validators
- 30:03Learn more and closing
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