Lido DAO approves core upgrade for mainnet deployment

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Lido's DAO approved a major Core Upgrade around July 23, 2026, clearing Dual Governance with no vetoes and moving the changes toward mainnet. The upgrade combines Community Staking Module v3, which eases permissionless node operator entry, and Curated Module v2, which introduces bond-based collateral as a performance guarantee to reduce governance overhead. Lido ran testnets and independent security audits before the vote, and stETH holders need not migrate tokens. Because Lido controls a large share of staked ETH and stETH is widely integrated in DeFi, the upgrade may strengthen stETH's role as collateral and affect many downstream protocols.

Core upgrade goes to mainnet with no staker action required