The decentralized autonomous group behind Lido — the most important Ethereum staking pool — is deliberating whether or not it ought to promote or stake the $30 million in Ether (ETH) from its treasury.

A proposal was submitted on Feb. 14 by the DAO’s monetary unit, Steakhouse Monetary, that considers 4 selections, considered one of which contemplates staking half or all of its ETH on Lido within the type of Lido Staked ETH (stETH).

One other would see LidoDAO promoting an element or all of its 20,304 ETH for a stablecoin, with the aim being to increase the DAO’s runway.

The proposal comes as ETH staking withdrawals will quickly be enabled by means of Ethereum’s Shanghai and Capella upgrades,that are anticipated to happen someday early this yr,according to the Ethereum Basis.

Whereas changing the ETH to Staked ETH might result in extra protocol rewards, the DAO is cautious that an excessive amount of staking might threat it not having sufficient Ether readily available “in case of want.”

Concerning working bills, Steakhouse Monetary mentioned it might be essential to swap Ether for a stablecoin with a view to “preemptively safe further runway.”

Steakhouse Monetary famous that with LidoDAO’s present inflows at about 1000 stETH per thirty days, the DAO is making roughly $1.3 million to 1.5 million per thirty days with the worth of ETH hovering between $1,100 and $1,700 over the previous few months.

Steakhouse Monetary mentioned these figures alone ought to be “adequate to cowl month-to-month working bills.”

Nonetheless, they’re nonetheless deliberating whether or not it’s value changing extra stETH right into a stablecoin to higher put together for any change in market situations that will result in elevated working bills.

A enterprise improvement consultant from LidoDAO mentioned that they’re not significantly thrilled with the present state of the stablecoin market:

“Contemplating all of the FUD and rumors, each DAI on account of USDC collateral and USDC itself pose potential threat in the event that they grow to be frozen. That being mentioned I’ve points with the liquidity of LUSD and USDT has but its personal points.”

It seems as if most LidoDAO members are in favor of partially promoting and staking a portion of the 20,304 ETH locked in its Aragon sensible contract.

Lido overtakes MakerDAO and now has the best TVL in DeFi

The proposals come as the whole worth locked (TVL) of stETH fell 6.66% from Feb. 6 to Feb. 13.

Lido Analytics: Feb 06 – 13, 2023

TLDR:
– Lido TVL is down -6.66%, following a -7.22% fall within the worth of ETH.
– Lido led in new stake on Ethereum, with a 27% share in weekly deposits.
– New @AaveAave V3 wstETH: 34,726 (+34.87%).
– Lido on Polygon reaches 2% market share. pic.twitter.com/iWA9YccM6e

— Lido (@LidoFinance) February 13, 2023

The TVL of Lido is at the moment $8.13 billion, according to on-chain metrics platform DeFiLlama.