Lido, the largest Ethereum staking protocol by total value locked, launched Curated Module v2, a new version of its main staking module that for the first time requires professional node operators to back the stake they manage with their own capital. This upgrade, the biggest since Lido V2 in May 2023, will migrate over 265,000 validators holding more than 8 million staked ETH, worth roughly $16.5 billion, onto Ethereum’s high-balance validator design. Lido expects the consolidation to cut the network’s total validator count from about 880,000 to roughly 628,000 — a one-third reduction — and trim attestation messages across the network by approximately 29% per epoch. All 34 node operators in the curated set are expected to complete the transition by end of 2026.
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