Lido
Liquid Staking — Largest ETH staking protocol. stETH is the most widely used DeFi collateral.
AI review
AI assessment
updated 3h ago·Claude (preview)·previewLido is the largest ETH liquid-staking protocol; stETH is the most widely-used DeFi collateral. It is DAO-upgradeable with an emergency multisig (GateSeal). No material change has been detected in the current window — an example of the calm, no-alert state.
- Upgradeable, controlled by the Lido DAO (Aragon) plus an agent and emergency GateSeal multisig. governance
- stETH is the most widely-used DeFi collateral, making Lido a systemic dependency for lenders. coverage
- 8 feeds report on Lido; no incidents are recorded in the registry. incident
AI-generated summary of facts already in this registry — not a Rails assessment, not a risk score, and not a ranking. Per the project charter, the registry never produces its own composite risk judgement. Verify every point against the linked sources below. This is an illustrative preview of a proposed feature; the content is not live.
Feeds
How feeds see it
Seen through 4 of 4 methodology lenses (rating, dashboard, monitoring, research). A neutral view of who is looking and how — not a risk judgement.
Lido v2: DAO/Aragon upgrade rights not protected by a ≥7-day exit window or sufficient Security Council.
Qualitative wstETH assessment (Market / Technology / Counterparty risk).
Vault analytics and risk-adjusted yield across 50+ protocols; exploits, concentration, risk-adjusted APY. Paid structured API.
View sourceProtocol-risk component rated "Average" (tiers: Best/Good/Average/Watch out/Avoid); Lido ETH staking pool rated A. Pre-migration sample.
Process Quality Review; ~92% (an earlier review scored 84%).
Independent risk rating for DeFi vaults; 300+ subscores across 85+ mechanisms. Open-source.
View sourcePosition-management tooling: live loan-health / safety-ratio tracking and automated liquidation protection for leveraged positions.
View sourceQuantitative on-chain risk dashboards for lending markets: liquidations, collateral health, exposure.
Vault-level risk monitoring for Morpho curators: allocation risk and curator behavior.
Institutional-grade credit-risk ratings for DeFi protocols and borrowers. Credora by RedStone; GraphQL API + on-chain attestations (EAS).
Deterministic vault risk scoring across 700+ vaults: asset quality, code maturity, governance. Open methodology (public API, CLI, MCP server).
Real-time risk scores for DeFi liquidity pools: risk metrics, TVL, APY, security grades.
DAO governance-capture risk: delegate/voting-power concentration, cost-to-attack vs. treasury value, and proposal/power-shift monitoring across major DAOs. Open-source.
Agent-based economic simulation: insolvency prevention, parameter optimization, and risk-scenario analysis for lending markets.
Edge risk oracles and economic-risk dashboards: real-time parameter automation and scenario stress for lending markets (active on Aave, GMX, Pendle).
Governance
Governance at a glance
- Governance
- DAO (Aragon)
- Core contracts
- Upgradeable
- Pause capability
- Yes
Structural facts, distilled from the sourced control records below — neutral capabilities, not a risk score.
Audits
| Auditor | Date | Scope | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Certora | 2025-12 | Lido V3 (stVaults) | Report |
| Consensys Diligence | 2025-11 | Lido V3 contracts | Report |
| OpenZeppelin | 2024-11 | Lido Dual Governance | Report |
| Statemind | 2023-04 | Lido V2 (withdrawals + staking router) | Report |
Representative public audits, attributed and linked to source — not a Rails assessment, and not a completeness or safety guarantee.