# Lido proposes a separate permissionless 0x02 validator module

> The proposal introduced a two-stage deposit and top-up allocation design and sought a 20% combined stake-share ceiling for the existing and proposed CSM instances.

- URL: https://riadefi.com/on-chain/2026-07-10-lido-0x02-csm-launch-proposal/
- Type: Governance
- Stage: Proposed
- Evidence: confirmed
- Materiality: material
- Event date: 2026-07-10
- Version: 1, published 2026-08-22 (first published 2026-08-22)
- Follow-up: 2026-07-31
- Advisor-relevant: no
- Affects: Lido (protocol)

## What happened

Lido governance received a proposal to launch a separate permissionless Community Staking Module for 0x02 withdrawal credentials and validators with effective balances up to 2,048 ETH.

## What changed

The proposal introduced a two-stage deposit and top-up allocation design and sought a 20% combined stake-share ceiling for the existing and proposed CSM instances.

## What did not change

The proposal does not prove mainnet deployment. The existing 0x01 CSM would continue serving smaller operators, and the exact top-up queue capacity was deferred.

## Confirmed

- The proposed 0x02 CSM is a separate module rather than a replacement for 0x01 CSM.
- It is designed for validators with effective balances up to 2,048 ETH.
- The design first allocates 32 ETH and then uses a capacity-limited queue for progressive top-ups.
- The proposal seeks a 20% maximum combined stake share for the 0x01 and 0x02 CSM instances.
- Existing 0x01 operators would not receive a direct consolidation path into the new module.

## Still open

- The vote result, final launch parameters, deployed addresses, and mainnet activation are not established.
- The number of top-up queue seats remained deferred until closer to deployment.
- Production bond-risk, exit, penalty, and allocation behavior for variable-balance validators remains untested.

## What it means for an advisor

- Review the Lido memo's validator-module concentration, permissionless operator, bond, and allocation assumptions.
- Do not treat the proposed module as live or covered by the existing approval until deployed contracts and final parameters are verified.
- Monitor whether the combined 20% ceiling and queue controls are encoded and enforceable on-chain.

## Sources

1. [0x02 CSM: New Permissionless Module Launch](https://snapshot.org/#/lido-snapshot.eth/proposal/0xed2a3b1f796cefdd531abe14ba01363b2da7887434cefdd54ba71ffb6dff59a7) · Lido DAO via Snapshot · 2026-07-10


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