# Lido proposes a $60 million 2026 ecosystem grant budget

> If approved, the proposal would authorize a $43.8 million baseline funding plan and a discretionary growth cap of $16.2 million, with later disbursements requested through Easy Track motions to named operational multisigs.

- URL: https://riadefi.com/on-chain/2025-12-11-lido-goose3-ecosystem-grant-budget/
- Type: Governance
- Stage: Proposed
- Evidence: developing
- Materiality: watch
- Event date: 2025-12-11
- Version: 1, published 2026-08-22 (first published 2026-08-22)
- 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 DAO received a 2026 Ecosystem Grant gRequest seeking up to $60 million for protocol maintenance, resilience work, growth initiatives, and execution of the GOOSE-3 strategy through three DAO-adjacent foundations.

## What changed

If approved, the proposal would authorize a $43.8 million baseline funding plan and a discretionary growth cap of $16.2 million, with later disbursements requested through Easy Track motions to named operational multisigs.

## What did not change

The candidate does not establish approval, transfer of funds, or execution of any protocol upgrade. Revenue and staking projections are assumptions, not confirmed outcomes.

## Confirmed

- The proposal requests up to $60 million for 2026.
- The request comprises $26.9 million for Core baseline work, $16.9 million for Growth baseline work, and a $16.2 million discretionary cap.
- The proposed implementation relies on later Easy Track funding motions.
- The candidate names operational multisigs for Lido Labs, Lido Ecosystem, and Lido Alliance foundations.

## Still open

- The Snapshot candidate does not establish the final vote result.
- No later Easy Track motions or actual disbursements are included.
- Reporting, clawback, milestone, and discretionary-spending controls are not fully specified in the retained text.
- The proposal's revenue, staking-growth, and surplus projections remain illustrative.

## What it means for an advisor

- Monitor the vote and subsequent Easy Track motions as separate operative events.
- Track treasury disbursements and delegated spending authority against the approved envelope rather than treating the proposal total as already spent.
- Do not treat projected protocol growth or revenue as evidence that Lido V3 or other planned products are live.

## Sources

1. [Ecosystem Grant gRequest: Executing GOOSE-3](https://snapshot.org/#/lido-snapshot.eth/proposal/0xf263b730f1c64d637ec27227121d7c5bd2189bf456514bad8225e960cf34d7b0) · Lido DAO · 2025-12-11


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