{"id":575992,"date":"2026-03-30T02:53:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/lido-dao-proposes-20m-ldo-buyback-to-reverse-historic-price-fall\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T02:53:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:53:55","slug":"lido-dao-proposes-20m-ldo-buyback-to-reverse-historic-price-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/lido-dao-proposes-20m-ldo-buyback-to-reverse-historic-price-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Lido DAO proposes $20M LDO buyback to reverse historic price fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lido<\/p>\n

The LDO token is down 95.9% from its all-time high, with a $255 million market cap, even as Lido\u2019s staking protocol still accounts for the largest share of staked Ether at 23.2%.<\/p>\n

Lido\u2019s decentralized autonomous organization is considering a one-off $20 million buyback of its governance token to address so-called price dislocation, which is at \u201chistorically depressed levels\u201d relative to Ether, according to the DAO.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The proposal, submitted<\/a> Friday, seeks permission to swap 10,000 Lido Staked Ether (stETH) tokens, currently worth $20 million from the DAO\u2019s treasury for Lido DAO (LDO<\/a>), arguing that LDO is undervalued. <\/p>\n

A token buyback of this size could boost the price of the token, which has fallen roughly 96% from its all-time high. In November, a Lido DAO member pitched an automated buyback mechanism for LDO to improve the token\u2019s price. However, that proposal hasn\u2019t been implemented.<\/p>\n

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The LDO token is down 95.9% from its all-time high, with a $255 million market cap, even as Lido\u2019s staking protocol still accounts for the largest share of staked Ether at 23.2%. Lido\u2019s decentralized autonomous organization is considering a one-off $20 million buyback of its governance token to address so-called price dislocation, which is at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":575993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-575992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}