In eight days Ethereum is planning to undergo one of the most intensive upgrades since the DAO hard fork in 2016, as The Merge aims to change the network’s consensus mechanism from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS). Amid the lead-up to The Merge, the decentralized finance (defi) and liquid staking protocol Lido’s total value locked (TVL) jumped 6.34% this week and the project’s native token increased by more than 23% against the U.S. dollar during the past seven days.
Liquid Staking Service Lido Seeing Demand Prior to The Merge
The Merge is coming and it’s just over a week away from now. Crypto supporters and participants are getting ready for Ethereum’s most notable fork since 2016. The anticipation is building for Ethereum’s most notable fork since 2016. Lido Finance, a defi protocol, has been receiving significant activity over the past seven days.
Lido allows liquid staking to be used to secure their tokens and generate revenue. It also makes it possible to trade the assets and keep them in non-custodial hands. Lido’s wrapped version of the ethereum, called lido-staked ether (STETH), is currently the thirteenth most valuable market capitalization in crypto.
STETH is valued at $6.57 trillion as of September 5, 2022. STETH saw $4.18million in worldwide trading volume during the past day. Lido Finance saw some demand before The Merge, and the total value lock (TVL), increased by 6.34% over the past seven days.
Stats from defillama.com and lido.fi both show that Lido’s TVL today is $6.95 billion. $6.78 billion of the $6.95 billion is staked ethereum, according to Lido’s website. According to metrics.defillama.com, Lido ranks second in Makerdao’s defi protocols.
The defi project’s native token lido dao (LDO) jumped 23.4% against the U.S. dollar during the past week. LDO ranks 48 out of over 12,000 crypto assets. The token’s 24-hour global trade volume has reached $56,716,794. There’s a circulating supply of 604,677,030 LDO today and the price has ranged from $1.93 to $2.07 per unit.
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