Why Is Lido Moving $16B in Staked ETH to Pectra-Era Validators?

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Liquid staking app Lido has migrated the bulk of its staked ETH onto Ethereum's larger post-Pectra validators, consolidating thousands of identical 32 ETH validators into far fewer, much larger ones. Node operators are now putting up their own capital for the first time, improving validator security and aligning incentives, a development likely to boost DeFi staking efficiency and adoption.
Liquid staking app Lido has started moving the bulk of its staked ETH onto Ethereum’s larger post-Pectra validators, and the operators running them are now putting up their own capital for the first time.
The main idea is that Lido’s curated node operators stop running thousands of identical 32 ETH validators and collapse them into far fewer, much larger ones.
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