Lido Posts 23% Revenue Drop in 2025, Plans LDO Buyback

Lido, the largest liquid staking protocol on Ethereum, closed 2025 with total revenue of $40.5 million, down 23% from $52.4 million the year before, according to an execution report published by the Lido Foundation. The DAO is now reviewing an automated LDO token buyback mechanism, with the deployment targeted for Q2 2026, as part of a broader effort to align the governance token’s value with the protocol&#8217…