Key Takeaways Lido, the largest ETH liquid staking infrastructure provider, moved over 8 million ETH, worth $16.5 billion, onto Ethereum’s 0x02 validators. Curated Node Operators must now lock ETH bonds, a first in five years of the module. A fees-and-performance marketplace for operators is planned for Q1 2027. That stake, worth roughly $16.5 billion, is about a fifth of all ETH currently staked. Node operators will consolidate it from Ethereum’s older 0x01 validators onto 0x02 validators, the format Ethereum’s Pectra hardfork made possible earlier this year, Lido detailed. Pectra lets a single validator hold up to 2,048 ETH instead of …