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Lido\u2019s DAO is debating whether its 2027 grant budget should guide automated purchases of the LDO governance token.<\/p>\n

The Oct. 7 discussion<\/a> puts two choices on the table: link NEST\u2019s revenue threshold to approved spending, or periodically clear the buyback engine\u2019s negative spending counter.<\/p>\n

NEST had made no purchases funded by its allocator when checked on Oct. 13. Genuine cost cuts could leave more income available for buying, while a reset would only remove past constraints.<\/p>\n

Governance contributor Kuzmich proposed the budget link on Oct. 7. In an Oct. 9 response, Jenya_K supported considering it in the 2027 grant request, but said the amount must come from bottom-up planning.<\/p>\n

Kuzmich\u2019s Oct. 11 follow-up corrected the treatment of staking rebates and tested profits without assumed treasury income.<\/p>\n

What the counter measures<\/h2>\n

Under Lido\u2019s implemented specification<\/a>, NEST compares measured staking revenue with a daily baseline of $109,589, approximately $40 million a year. Half the difference feeds a running spending counter.<\/p>\n

Revenue below the baseline subtracts from that counter, and stronger revenue must repair the shortfall before purchases can start.\u00a0A treasury can hold assets while the counter remains negative, and a positive counter would not by itself establish accounting profit.<\/p>\n

The latest captured checkpoint<\/a> on Oct. 13 recorded a counter of minus $564,230.96 and a skipped allocation.<\/p>\n

Separately, the allocator held about 41.12 stETH<\/a> when checked on Oct. 13. Its complete indexed transfer history<\/a> showed one 41-stETH top-up on Aug. 28 and no outgoing trans<\/p>\n

Any future spending must satisfy sufficient counter capacity and funded stETH. It also faces a $50,000 daily cap, a $10 million cap over fixed 365-day windows, and a $1,000 allocation minimum.<\/p>\n

Lido\u2019s separate discretionary stETH-to-LDO acquisitions are a different program, and the community reconstruction<\/a> identifies an August trade as a route test.<\/p>\n

NEST does not currently capture monthly Community Staking Module rebates or Earn income. Jenya_K said CSM rebates are already included in financial reporting, so adding them again to reported net revenue would double-count them.<\/p>\n\n

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Lido\u2019s proposed staking route needs over 13 times the default entry bond<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/i>\n <\/span>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n

Lido\u2019s unaudited accounts<\/a> for the first half show $15.7 million in net staking revenue plus $230,000 from Earn, producing $15.9 million in net DAO revenue. Foundations expenses of $14.3 million left an operating surplus of $1.6 million, and a $6 million Kelp-related one-off turned the total result into a $4.4 million loss.<\/p>\n

The report separately places $1.4 million of treasury income and a $60.9 million asset-price effect in its treasury bridge, outside the profit-and-loss statement. Jenya_K also warned that treasury operations can include losses.<\/p>\n

The 2026 grant request<\/a> presents a $43.8 million baseline, and the first-half report references $41 million and projects full-year expenses of $37.7 million. The cited materials do not explicitly reconcile the two baseline labels, and none is interchangeable with NEST\u2019s $40 million revenue threshold.<\/p>\n

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Lido\u2019s NEST framework calculates buyback capacity from tracked staking revenue, separately from the DAO\u2019s operating profit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The budget model needs an expense correction<\/h2>\n

Kuzmich\u2019s Oct. 11 model<\/a> uses 1,000 ETH price<\/a> paths over 12 months from Oct. 1, beginning at $2,679.84 with 61% annual volatility and no expected arithmetic price drift. Its purchase frequencies are not measured probabilities of what will happen next.<\/p>\n

In the published Oct. 1 simulations under the current rule, mean purchases were about $2.3 million, but the median was zero. Stronger ETH paths lift the average even when more than half the simulations produce no purchases.<\/p>\n

Lower budget-linked thresholds produce larger purchases in that model. However, its profit comparison contains a consequential mismatch: the forum says actual expenses match the approved budget, while the code<\/a> scales a forecast expense curve by each budget divided by $43.8 million.<\/p>\n

That curve implies about $39.8 million of expenses across the modeled year before scaling, and only $27.3 million in the row labeled $30 million.<\/p>\n

The table below holds the published revenue paths and purchase rules constant, but sets actual expenses equal to each threshold. Profit excludes treasury income and is measured before purchases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Annual threshold and actual expenses<\/th>\nMean modeled purchases<\/th>\nMedian modeled purchases<\/th>\nMean modeled profit before purchases<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
$40 million<\/td>\n$2.32 million<\/td>\n$0<\/td>\n\u2212$1.92 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$35 million<\/td>\n$3.35 million<\/td>\n$1.26 million<\/td>\n$3.08 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
$30 million<\/td>\n$4.71 million<\/td>\n$3.18 million<\/td>\n$8.08 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The expense correction leaves the purchase amounts unchanged because this version of NEST buys against the revenue threshold, without checking actual expenses.<\/p>\n

At $30 million in actual expenses, mean modeled profit excluding treasury income falls from the published $10.7 million to $8 million. Among paths with purchases, the fraction ending in a loss rises from 12.6% to 22.2%.<\/p>\n

A separate CryptoSlate<\/em> sensitivity starting Oct. 13, assuming continued funding and using the refreshed counter and explorer ETH quote but unchanged September fee volumes and first-half deduction and Earn assumptions, produced a $2.1 million median for the $30 million case.<\/p>\n

The economic direction remains clear within these assumptions: real spending cuts improve the modeled profit balance. Lowering the contract\u2019s threshold alone permits additional buying even when the DAO\u2019s broader operations finish at a loss.<\/p>\n

A reset loosens the spending brake<\/h2>\n

An annual reset would discard a negative counter at a calendar-year boundary while retaining positive capacity.<\/p>\n

CryptoSlate\u2019s<\/em> reset comparison corrects a period overlap in the published script<\/a>: whole-month purchase totals count September 2028 in two adjacent 365-day profit periods.<\/p>\n

That recalculation gives average spending of about $2.6 million per modeled 365-day period with carry-forward and $2.8 million with annual resets, resulting in a roughly 8% gain. Quarterly resets produce about $2.9 million.<\/p>\n

With treasury income excluded, periods ending in a loss account for about 19.5% of purchase-making periods under carry-forward, compared with 30.0% under annual resets. Their shares of purchase dollars are much smaller, about 3.5% and 4.4%, respectively.<\/p>\n

The result supports a limited conclusion: a reset cannot make the DAO more profitable, and its modeled spending effect is smaller than the budget changes.<\/p>\n

The existing allocator has no direct reset function<\/a>. Its Voting-controlled threshold setters preserve the accumulated counter and apply changes prospectively, so a recurring reset needs a different implementation or governance arrangement.<\/p>\n

The 2027 grant process would need to set a feasible spending budget and its corresponding threshold, account for additional revenue without double-counting, and fund any permitted purchases.<\/p>\n

The treasury-only design returns purchased LDO tokens to the DAO, with no automatic burn or holder payout. Jenya_K reported no specific plans for the acquired LDO, burns remain a discussion proposal, and liquidity mode requires a separate DAO decision.<\/p>\n

Lido\u2019s report treats token acquisitions as asset swaps or purchases without an immediate profit-and-loss effect, with LDO excluded from headline treasury value. More buying can change the treasury\u2019s asset mix without establishing stronger earnings, guaranteed price support, or better ETH staking returns.<\/p>\n

That leaves the grant request with a concrete economic test: whether net income improves after actual costs, and whether the acquisition policy preserves those gains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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