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Lido moves $16 billion in staked ETH onto post-Pectra validators as Curated Module v2 launches

7/27/2026

The case for Lido's validator consolidation is that it follows naturally from what Ethereum's Pectra upgrade made possible.

The protocol has begun shifting more than 8 million $ETH onto 0x02 validators, the larger credential format that Pectra introduced, using Curated Module v2 as the operational mechanism.

What complicates the story is that consolidating a position this size through a single protocol puts Lido's market concentration back in focus.

What Curated Module v2 enables Curated Module v2 is the tooling that makes this migration operational for Lido at scale.