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Lido V3 is live on the Ethereum mainnet, with stVaults. This significant upgrade is the introduction of modular staking infrastructure, operating on stETH, that is specifically tailored to the requirements of an exceptionally broad selection of builders and institutions. The landscape of staking in the past made participants make a tough trade-off between pooled liquid staking and the management of tailored staking arrangements. Lido V3 is live on Ethereum mainnet, introducing stVaults: Modular staking infrastructure for builders, powered by stETH.https://t.co/A6vpfysrXp ↓ pic.twitter.com/RpQxRXtWH8 — Lido (@LidoFinance) January 30, 2026 Lido V3 can address this dilemma well because the ecosystem lets teams create their own staking environments without losing the liquidity that the DeFi utility stETH offers. The stVaults launch is here to simplify the decentralized financial ecosystem. Lido can support a wide variety of staking models; because the staking logic is decoupled from the liquidity layer, many potentially parallel staking models can be created. This modularity implies that one protocol is now able to support multiple risk profiles, fee structures, and operator selections, and it also benefits from and contributes to the deep liquidity and massive integrations of the Ethereum DeFi ecosystem. Lido V3: Bridging the Gap Between Customization and Liquidity Prior to the development of stVaults, users used to face the dilemma of either high liquidity or high control. Simple and efficient, yet providing very limited policy customization or particular node operator choice, was pooled liquid staking. Custom staking arrangements had full control over the risk parameters and fees but led to illiquid positions, which were operationally difficult to operate. Lido V3 does not have to face binary choices, allowing it to offer a shared liquidity layer, enabling highly customized vault structures. Builders and institutions are now able to establish what is important to their unique applications. This consists of…

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