Yesterday, Lido for Solana went live on Solana mainnet. In about 24 hours since launch, around $7m worth of SOL have already been staked with Lido by over 400 accounts.
Now that these stakers have unlocked all this liquidity, the biggest need of the hour is to enable them to utilize it in DeFi protocols.
We understand that and we’re thrilled to announce that we are live on two AMMs — Saber and Raydium.
Saber, the leading cross-chain stablecoin and wrapped assets exchange on Solana, has launched the stSOL/SOL pool currently holding roughly $300,000 in liquidity.
Raydium, an automated market maker (AMM) built on the Solana blockchain which leverages the central order book of the Serum decentralized exchange (DEX), have launched a first stablecoin pool with stSOL
In the near future, another stSOL liquidity pool with an ETH pair will be launched on Raydium.
Raydium’s AMM aggregates Serum’s central limit order book, meaning that pools have access to all order flow and liquidity on Serum. For stSOL the following two markets exist on Serum:
In addition to these integrations, we are working with Mercurial Finance to go live with a stSOL/SOL pool that will use our internal price oracle to create a maximally efficient liquidity pool.
Keep a lookout for this and further upcoming integrations at https://chorus.one/products/liquid-staking
We are thrilled to announce the launch of Lido for Solana. Lido, the leading protocol bringing liquidity to staked assets on Ethereum and Terra, has expanded its offering to Solana. Lido’s liquid staking token for Solana — stSOL — allows its holders to passively earn Solana staking rewards with a diversified set of professional node operators while retaining the ability to collateralize their stake in DeFi applications such as liquidity pools or lending protocols.
Over $6bn have already been staked with Lido by more than 29000 stakers making Lido the largest non-custodial staking protocol for Ethereum and Terra. This overwhelming confidence in Lido’s liquid staking products will only grow with the addition of Lido for Solana to the cohort. As is true with other Lido staking products, Lido for Solana is going to integrate with a number of decentralized finance applications making it easy for stSOL holders to earn passive rewards!
Lido for Solana makes the value locked in staked SOL tokens accessible by issuing stSOL in exchange. Lido for Solana makes Solana staking extremely attractive by providing
Liquid staking circumvents the opportunity cost of having your tokens locked up in a PoS protocol.
In Proof-of-Stake (PoS) networks, users participate in securing the network by locking up their tokens. They get rewarded as a result in the form of native tokens. The staking assets are used as collateral to register validators in the consensus process. This means that while assets are staked, they are held in an escrow on the network. Consequently, staked assets are inaccessible to the token holder while they are being used to secure the network.
Another restriction in most PoS protocols is that even when a token holder decides to exit a staking position, they are only able to do so with a delay. This is most commonly referred to as the unbonding period. In Solana, this period is known as the deactivation/cooldownand lasts for approximately 2–3 days (1 epoch). There are many costs associated with such illiquidity.
Liquid staking circumvents the opportunity cost of having your tokens locked up in a PoS protocol. In liquid staking, the staked positions are tokenized and derivative tokens are issued. These derivative staked tokens are a claim to the underlying, illiquid staking positions and become the liquid representation of the native token. These liquid tokens can be used in various financial products thereby enabling stakers to earn additional yields and manage their liquidity risk exposure.
Liquid Staking on Solana issues liquid tokens called stSOL which can be used in various DeFi integrations available on the platform. Liquid staking for Solana is available on mainnet at https://solana.lido.fi
After approving your transaction you will see the new stSOL balance reflected on the widget.
Head over to the DeFi integrations section at https://chorus.one/products/liquid-staking/ and choose your preferred DeFi Integration. Alternatively, visit https://lido.fi/lido-ecosystem to explore the latest decentralized applications where you can use the stSOL token.
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The complete documentation for the project can be found at https://chorusone.github.io/solido/. Head over to the page to explore staking guides and other technical resources.
The launch on the Solana mainnet was preceded by 2 security audits and an ongoing bug bounty program, highlighting the importance placed on the security of the protocol. The complete source code for the on-chain program has been made publicly available and can be accessed at https://github.com/ChorusOne/solido
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Further information and the latest updates on Lido for Solana can be found on the official website.
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[Update: The bug bounty has concluded.]
We are taking another step in making Lido for Solana more secure by announcing a bug bounty in partnership with Immunefi. To date, we have had two audits done on our source code. The first one has been done by Bramah Systems and the second one, which is ongoing at the moment, by Neodyme. This bug bounty is a step further in fortifying the security of Lido for Solana ahead of its launch in September.
The bounty amount of $100,000 could be soon revised to $2,000,000 if the proposal to bump it up gets accepted. The $2m proposal is getting voted upon and as of now has received 100% votes in favour of increasing the bounty. The voting is still open though and ends on the 1st of September.
Immunefi is a bug bounty platform for smart contracts and projects to protect them against catastrophic exploits by rewarding white hats who find bugs in the system. Rewards are distributed according to the level of the vulnerability exposed, with levels varying on a 5-point scale based on Immunefi Vulnerability Severity Classification System.
The bug bounty covers smart contracts as well as the lido app website. The primary focus of the bug bounty program is the Lido Program’s smart contracts but there are generous rewards for discovering bugs in the Lido web app as well.
Payouts are done in either ETH, DAI, RAI, or LDO
All the web app bug reports require an accompanying PoC in order to be considered for a reward. Payouts are handled by the Lido for Solana department of the Lido team directly and are denominated in USD. Payouts are done in either ETH, DAI, RAI, or LDO, as per the bug bounty hunter’s preference.
For a list of assets in scope please refer to the bug bounty page at Immunefi
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Note: For researchers who want to start their research early, a development version is available at https://solana-dev.testnet.lido.fi/, but this devnet deployment is not in scope. Additionally, any web/app bugs not directly related to what is in the Assets in Scope table but relevant for lido.fi, should be submitted in their main bug bounty program, assuming it fulfills all other requirements.
Lido for Solana is a Lido-DAO governed liquid staking protocol for the Solana blockchain. Anyone who stakes their SOL tokens with Lido will be issued an on-chain representation of SOL staking position with Lido validators, called stSOL. Lido for Solana will integrate stSOL widely into the Solana DeFi ecosystem to enable stSOL users to make use of their staked assets in a variety of applications.
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With a proposal to increase and expand Lido’s bug bounty program to $2m underway, it is clear the Lido DAO is very serious about maintaining the security of its projects.
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Lido for Solana is going to be a very mission-critical project and consequently a lucrative target for attacks. We take security seriously and this bug bounty is an effort to battle-test our codebase. We encourage all white hats to participate in this program and be rewarded with handsome bounty amounts.
For applying to the bug bounty and for further information, please visit the Immunefi bug bounty page
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