Lido officially launches
$LDO automated buyback mechanism: NEST, further binding protocol revenue to token value.
Key design points:
· Trigger threshold: When Lido’s annualized staking rewards exceed a $40 million baseline, 50% of the excess is injected into NEST
· Execution method: Automatically buy LDO via CoW Swap, with no manual intervention
· Initial parameters: Maximum buyback of $50,000 per day, with a rolling 365-day cap of $10 million
· Pause rules: The system automatically halts when protocol revenue is insufficient or the cumulative balance turns negative, and resumes once surpluses return
In the initial phase, it uses a Treasury model: the buyback proceeds
$LDO go directly into the DAO treasury and are not burned. Later, via a DAO vote, it can be switched to an LP model: half buys LDO and half is swapped into wstETH, together injected into the Curve liquidity pool; the LP tokens remain owned by the DAO.
The backtest data is quite interesting: if this mechanism were applied to total reward revenue of about $94.18 million in 2024–2025, the cumulative buyback volume would be about $7.09 million. The absolute amount isn’t overly aggressive, but the significance lies in establishing a long-term "revenue–buyback" closed loop.
Two points worth paying attention to: first, the $40 million trigger requires sustained excess to activate, providing a buffer against revenue fluctuations; second, moving from Treasury to LP essentially upgrades buybacks into liquidity building, offering more long-term support for the trading depth of
$LDO .
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