Lido DAO: who can vote, and what can stop a vote

Lido runs liquid staking for Ethereum. Here are its voting rules, and 161 published audits that were never reconciled with each other.

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Conclusions

Evidence

lido.fi/governancegovernance page · fetched 2026-11-08

Regular process / Off-chain voting · chunk 66dc5c42

To create a proposal on the Lido DAO Snapshot, users need at least 1,000 LDO tokens — a minimum threshold that deters spam proposals. To pass, a proposal requires the winning option to receive both a minimum of 5% of total LDO token supply and a simple majority of all participating tokens.

On-chain voting — To pass, a proposal requires the "yes" option to receive both a minimum of 5% of total LDO token supply and a simple majority of all participating tokens.

How to verify

open lido.fi/governance → "Regular process" → "Off-chain voting", first paragraph

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