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- The TVL of Lido on the liquid staking protocol elevated final week.
- Curiosity in LDO has flattened amongst the token’s futures market contributors.
Lido [LDO], a liquid staking protocol for Ethereum [ETH], noticed its whole worth locked (TVL) surge previously week on account of an uptick in ETH and Solana [SOL] deposits, the protocol famous in its newest weekly replace on X (previously Twitter).
⚡️Lido TVL
Lido’s TVL elevated barely this week (7d: +0.84%), principally pushed by a progress in ETH and SOL deposits.
TVL completed the week at $14.17b. pic.twitter.com/gHCGxLazpK
— Lido (@LidoFinance) September 18, 2023
Between 11 and 18 September, ETH and SOL deposits on Lido grew by 0.53% and eight%, respectively, leading to a 1% progress in Lido’s TVL.
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Throughout that interval, the values of those Layer 1 (L1) cash grew by 0.18% and three.01% respectively. That is noteworthy, as the autumn within the costs of those property typically impacts Lido’s TVL progress.
At press time, Lido’s TVL stood at round $14.35 billion, with a 3.11% rally within the final month.
Throughout the interval below overview, the liquid staking platform led because the protocol with essentially the most web new deposits to the Ethereum Beacon Chain.
In accordance with knowledge from Dune Analytics, new deposits to the Ethereum Beacon Chain by means of Lido totaled 68,096 ETH within the type of staked cash. This represented a 20% leap from the 56,512 ETH recorded in new deposits within the earlier week.

Supply: Dune Analytics
During the last week, the Annual Share Fee (APR) of the protocol’s staked Ether [stETH] assessed on a seven-day shifting common noticed a minor decline of two%.
For context, Lido’s APR has trended downward since Could. On 12 Could, Lido’s stETH APR peaked at 7.17% and has since fallen by 49%.

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Additional, throughout the interval below overview, the quantity of wrapped staked Ether [wstETH] deposited for trades throughout decentralized finance (DeFi) swimming pools elevated by 0.08%. This got here after the earlier week’s decline of 5.72% on account of stETH’s removing from the Lybra Finance pool.
Relating to Layer 2 (L2) platforms, knowledge from Dune Analytics confirmed a 2% and 14.13% enhance within the quantity of stETH bridged to Arbitrum [ARB] and Polygon [MATIC], respectively.
However, Optimism [OP] recorded a 4.43% lower within the quantity of bridged stETH over the previous week.

Supply: Dune Analytics
Curiosity in LDO is low within the futures market
Amongst the contributors in LDO’s futures market, curiosity within the token has remained low for the reason that starting of the month. An evaluation of the token’s Open Curiosity confirmed that it has lingered between $37 million and $40 million since 1 September.
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When an asset’s Open Curiosity flattens out on this method, it means that the whole variety of excellent spinoff contracts for that asset haven’t been settled has not modified considerably.
This has typically been interpreted to imply an absence of curiosity out there throughout the materials time.

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