Lido Opens Higher-Balance Ethereum Validators With A Deliberately Small Start

Lido has opened a permissionless route to Ethereum validators that can hold much larger effective balances, but the first allocation is deliberately limited. Its October 23 launch of 0x02 Community Staking Module separates gaining access from receiving the full amount of stake a validator could eventually support.
TL;DRLido says its new 0x02 CSM is live.
Operators supply a bond while protocol allocations arrive in stages.
Existing 0x01 operators can continue without switching modules.
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