# Lido opens a vote on Curated Module fee tiers

> A concrete governance path opened to set the module-level operator share to 3.50% and pay qualifying operators an additional 0.50% or 1.00% through manual rebates.

- URL: https://riadefi.com/on-chain/2025-11-24-lido-curated-module-fee-tiers/
- Type: Economic change
- Stage: Proposed
- Evidence: confirmed
- Materiality: material
- Event date: 2025-11-24
- Version: 1, published 2026-08-22 (first published 2026-08-22)
- Follow-up: 2025-12-02
- Advisor-relevant: no
- Affects: Lido (protocol)

## What happened

Lido opened a Snapshot vote on an interim Curated Module fee structure with Standard, Extra Effort, and Client-Team operator tiers.

## What changed

A concrete governance path opened to set the module-level operator share to 3.50% and pay qualifying operators an additional 0.50% or 1.00% through manual rebates.

## What did not change

The proposal would leave Lido's overall 10% protocol fee unchanged. No approval or on-chain implementation occurred within the November event window, and Curated Module v2 remained a future proposal.

## Confirmed

- The proposed operator tiers are 3.50%, 4.00%, and 4.50%.
- Technical limitations in Curated Module v1 would set the module-level operator fee to 3.50%.
- Higher-tier amounts would be paid through manual rebate-like operations.
- The overall protocol fee would remain 10%.
- The Snapshot vote opened on November 24 and extended beyond the November review window.

## Still open

- The vote result and any subsequent Aragon approval or execution.
- The final operator classifications, rebate administrator, payment cadence, and verification controls.
- The effect on DAO revenue, operator retention, client yield, and operational-error exposure.
- The eventual Curated Module v2 fee and automation design.

## What it means for an advisor

- Review the Lido memo's fee-allocation and manual-payment control map if the proposal advances.
- Verify the final vote, execution, tier assignments, and rebate authority before treating the economics as operative.
- Do not infer that lower or differentiated operator fees improve staking safety or decentralization.

## Sources

1. [Curated Module Fee Changes](https://snapshot.org/#/lido-snapshot.eth/proposal/0x3a5d10fcd3fad6d5ccf05f5bd49244046600ad9cbed9a5e07845200b3ae97e09) · Lido Snapshot · 2025-11-24


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