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$LDO @E2)It is quietly maturing 💎
Lido DAO announced a one-time $20 million buyback package, stating that the LDO price has historically been very cheap compared to the protocol's financial performance and the TVL it carries, and this offer has been officially accepted.
To minimize market impact, these purchases are not made in a single transaction. Led by the treasury, they are carried out gradually in $1,000 stETH tranches, using limit orders or a dollar-cost averaging strategy.
In addition to the one-time emergency purchase above, the Lido team developed a more sustainable and automated buyback mechanism within the NEST framework.
A portion of the protocol's staking revenue will be directly used to buy LDO from the open market.
The purchased LDOs will be converted into a platform-controlled LDO/wstETH liquidity position and locked.
The development team has completed the manual swap module. Technical validation tests and full system integration are planned to be fully automated and live by Q2 2026.
In summary, the 20 million dollar emergency buyback plan was accepted and is actively being executed to break the perception of a useless governance token and to use network revenue directly for token value.
With this move, approximately 65 million LDO tokens are targeted to be pulled from the market. The infrastructure for a long-term and automatic revenue-sharing buyback model will be fully technically integrated by the end of Q2.
With these developments, this price cannot stay here much longer, my friends 💎