Overview
- Lido Labs Foundation activated stVaults on mainnet, enabling customizable staking environments that can optionally mint stETH while retaining DeFi integrations.
- The new system operates alongside Lido’s existing staking protocol to preserve unified liquidity rather than fragmenting it across separate pools.
- Early adopters include Linea with a protocol-controlled vault and Nansen’s first staking product, plus node operators P2P.org, Chorus One, Pier Two, and Sentora and institutions Solstice, Twinstake, Northstake, and Everstake.
- To ease deployment, Lido released a DeFi Wrapper toolkit that offers pooled‑vault smart contracts, connectors to strategies, white‑label interfaces, and custom ERC‑20 vault tokens.
- Lido says the rollout follows months of testing and audits with conservative initial limits, and a temporary infrastructure fee reduction applies to qualifying vaults through March 31, 2026.