# Lido approves Rewards Share Committee reform

> The approved mandate expands the committee's operational role in allocating approved rebates and executing treasury-funded stVault reward payments within DAO-approved budgets.

- URL: https://riadefi.com/on-chain/2026-01-26-lido-rewards-share-committee-reform/
- Type: Control change
- Stage: Approved, not executed
- Evidence: confirmed
- Materiality: material
- Event date: 2026-01-26
- Version: 1, published 2026-08-22 (first published 2026-08-22)
- Advisor-relevant: yes
- Affects: Lido (protocol)

## What happened

Lido DAO approved reforming and relaunching the Rewards Share Committee as a DAO-authorized operational committee with added duties for node-operator rebates and stVault rewards disbursement.

## What changed

The approved mandate expands the committee's operational role in allocating approved rebates and executing treasury-funded stVault reward payments within DAO-approved budgets.

## What did not change

The vote did not itself change stETH withdrawals, the core staking fee, validator balances, or demonstrate that any particular payment had been executed.

## Confirmed

- The official vote closed on 2026-01-26.
- Approximately 54.58 million voting units supported the proposal, with approximately 1.32 against.
- The approved mandate covers manual node-operator rebates and operational execution of stVault reward disbursements within approved budgets.

## Still open

- The candidate record does not establish when the reformed committee began operating.
- Specific future payout instructions and their on-chain execution remain separate actions.

## What it means for an advisor

- Review the Lido memo's operational-control map to reflect the committee's approved treasury-disbursement and rebate duties.
- Continue to distinguish committee execution authority from DAO approval of budgets and from the separate stVault Committee's payout instructions.

## Sources

1. [Rewards Share Committee Reform](https://snapshot.org/#/lido-snapshot.eth/proposal/0xb4a35720b03f4c888c2fb41ab66ed324262d7a5b4696ffc3ee20bb35ebb0df6f) · Lido DAO · 2026-01-19


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