Lido
Lido is the leading liquid staking protocol on Ethereum, allowing anyone to stake ETH without locking it or running validator infrastructure. Stakers deposit ETH and receive stETH — a rebasing ERC-20 that earns daily staking rewards — or its non-rebasing wrapped form wstETH used widely across DeFi. Lido is governed by the Lido DAO via the LDO token, Snapshot signaling, on-chain Aragon voting, and a Dual Governance timelock that gives stETH holders a dynamic veto over the DAO. The protocol's validator set is delegated across multiple Staking Modules — the Curated Module (professional node operators), Simple DVT (distributed validator technology via Obol and SSV), the Community Staking Module (permissionless solo stakers backed by bonded stETH), and stVaults (modular tailored setups). At over $18B TVL and 8.8M+ ETH staked, Lido is the #1 liquid staking provider by total value locked. Lido previously operated on Polygon (stMATIC, sunset June 2025) and Solana (stSOL, sunset February 2024); the protocol is now Ethereum-only. Lido publishes the open-source core smart contracts, a TypeScript SDK (`@lidofinance/lido-ethereum-sdk`), a Python oracle daemon, validator monitoring tooling, frontend widgets, and three public read-only HTTP APIs for protocol APR, reward history, and withdrawal queue timing.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles Lido the way a machine reads it — 24 machine-readable artifacts across 4 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Lido scores 18.6/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Lido
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Lido. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 4
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Lido APR API
Read-only HTTP API returning the latest stETH staking APR and a 7-day simple moving average APR. Used by integrators, dashboards, and DeFi protocols to display Lido's current an...
Lido Reward History API
Read-only HTTP API returning a per-address stETH reward history including USD/EUR/GBP fiat conversions, with options to filter to rewards-only, sort, paginate, and choose archiv...
Lido Withdrawals API
Read-only HTTP API for the Lido stETH withdrawal queue. Returns estimated finalization times for one or more withdrawal request IDs, and can forecast the expected wait time for ...
Lido Keys API
Service that exposes node operator validator keys from each Lido staking module (Curated, Simple DVT, CSM) for use by deposit security infrastructure, validator monitoring, and ...
GraphQL 1
Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.
GraphQL schemas published by this provider.
Lido Finance GraphQL API
Lido Finance exposes on-chain protocol data through a subgraph on The Graph protocol. The subgraph indexes Ethereum mainnet events from the Lido stETH contract, the Withdrawal Q...
GRAPHQLFeatures 17
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Lido — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 9
Reference material describing how the API behaves
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Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 16
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 6
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 15
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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