To get started with staking in Lido's platform, you'll need a digital wallet that supports Web 3.0, such as MetaMask, Ledger or an alternative of your preference.

This will allow you to connect your digital assets to Lido’s platform.

MetaMask / WalletConnect / Coinbase Wallet / Ledger/ Trust Wallet / imToken / Ambire / Blockchain.com / ZenGo / Zerion / Exodus / Brave / Coin98 / MathWallet / Tally / GameStop / XDEFI

LDO (Ethereum): 0x5a98fcbea516cf06857215779fd812ca3bef1b32

LDO (Arbitrum): 0x13ad51ed4f1b7e9dc168d8a00cb3f4ddd85efa60

LDO (Polygon): 0xc3c7d422809852031b44ab29eec9f1eff2a58756

LDO (Optimism): 0xfdb794692724153d1488ccdbe0c56c252596735f

Liquid Ethereum Staking

"Stake Ethereum" button allows users to connect their wallets and stake their ETH with Lido Finance, view their staking history and details, and manage their staking preferences.

Scorecard website is designed to promote transparency and accountability by providing users with access to real-time data on Lido Finance's performance against its key objectives. This helps users to make more informed decisions about staking with Lido Finance and provides greater confidence and trust in the platform's security and reliability. It is designed to track the platform's performance against its key objectives of being decentralized, trustless, governance-minimized, and ethos-aligned with the Ethereum community.

Rewards Calculator is designed for stakers to calculate their staking rewards with a calculator tool, with which you can simulate a staking process and see how much you would get in return for staking X amount of ETH. The useful data here are: Lido rewards, monthly rewards and yearly rewards.

In the "Stake Ethereum button" section, as stated above, users can stake their ETH with Lido Finance and earn rewards for their staking activity. The website provides an intuitive and user-friendly interface that allows users to connect their wallets and stake their ETH directly from their preferred wallet.

Available to Stake shows you how much ether you can stake at this moment. You cannot stake over the global staking limit, and the global limit goes down with each deposit but is passively restored on each block. You can read more about this on Staking rate limits.

Staked Amount shows the amount of ETH you have deposited and staked on the platform.

Lido APR = the moving average APR for a 7-day period.

Liquid Ethereum Staking

First, go to the Stake Ether page and click “Connect Wallet”. When you are shown the wallet options, choose your preferred option.

Connect wallet

Approving connection

If you have followed these steps, your wallet is now ready to interact with Lido’s platform and you should be able to view your ETH balance within the Lido widget.

Now, you are ready to enter the amount of ETH you want to stake. When you are ready, click “Stake”. Note that you will be able to view your Transaction Fee, stETH Balance and Annual Percentage Rate (APR) prior to submitting.

After that, confirm the transaction in your wallet.

Now that you have confirmed, your wallet will now contain the amount of ETH you staked - in stETH - in your wallet. Your stETH balance will be updated daily to reflect staking rewards.

Staking with Lido

At the time of writing this article, staking with ETH was temporarily not possible as of February 25, 2023, as the platform broke the Daily Inflow Record. In other words, the protocol experienced a breach of staking limit due to Justin Sun's 150,100 staked ETH, ahead of the Ethereum Shanghai upgrade. You can read more about this event in this article. We also recommend you read about staking rate limits.

Stake limit exhausted

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