# Lido opens a vote to re-endorse Starknet wstETH bridge endpoints

> A concrete governance path was opened for restoring canonical status after a legacy-token migration and prior offboarding. This expanded the Lido research perimeter to the replacement Starknet deployment and its governance-forwarder controls.

- URL: https://riadefi.com/on-chain/2025-03-26-lido-starknet-wsteth-reendorsement-proposal/
- Type: Governance
- Stage: Proposed
- Evidence: mixed
- Materiality: watch
- Event date: 2025-03-26
- Version: 1, published 2026-08-22 (first published 2026-08-22)
- Follow-up: 2025-04-03
- Advisor-relevant: no
- Affects: Lido (protocol)

Developing. Some claims here are not yet confirmed; they are listed apart from the confirmed facts. A new version replaces this one when the primary evidence changes.

## What happened

Lido governance opened a Snapshot on a Starknet Foundation proposal to recognize new Starknet wstETH bridge endpoints as canonical and transfer governance roles to Lido DAO.

## What changed

A concrete governance path was opened for restoring canonical status after a legacy-token migration and prior offboarding. This expanded the Lido research perimeter to the replacement Starknet deployment and its governance-forwarder controls.

## What did not change

The March event did not itself re-endorse the endpoints, complete the governance-role transfer, or change Ethereum stETH withdrawal mechanics. Ketju's Lido approval remained limited to Ethereum.

## Confirmed

- The official Lido forum proposal identifies the new and legacy Starknet wstETH contracts and the governance forwarder.
- The proposal states that governance roles would transfer to Lido DAO only if the proposal passed.
- The Snapshot began on March 26 and was scheduled to end April 3.

## Still open

- The proposal described the migration as complete while also stating that legacy-token migrations continued.
- The Network Expansion Committee's technical and process objections had not been resolved during March.
- The vote outcome, role-transfer execution, and post-execution verification were not established within the event window.

## What it means for an advisor

- Monitor the proposal as a possible new Lido bridge/control surface, not as approval of Starknet wstETH.
- Require verified role-transfer transactions and deployment verification before treating the replacement endpoints as canonical.
- Do not infer that audits, migration progress, or DAO endorsement would make the bridged asset appropriate for clients.

## Sources

1. [Re-endorsement of wstETH on Starknet](https://research.lido.fi/t/re-endorsement-of-wsteth-on-starknet/9725) · Lido Governance · 2025-03-10


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