PANews reported on October 26 that Lido Finance, a liquid staking provider, has launched its Community Staking Module (CSM) on the mainnet. This initiative was approved by Lido DAO community members and aims to make Ethereum staking more inclusive, breaking down the traditionally high technical and financial barriers of individual staking.
Dmitriy Gusakov, LidoDAO's technical lead and community member, stated that the CMS will ultimately become Lido's first permissionless staking module. At launch, the protocol will be limited to participants from the 'early adopter' phase that began in early October, including independent stakers from Ethereum and Gnosis, as well as Obol Techne certificate holders.
Once the mainnet is launched, anyone with 1.5 ETH can become a node operator and earn validator rewards by staking tokens. At current prices, this is approximately $3,800; however, the subsequent staking requirement for validators will be reduced to 1.3 ETH. In any case, this is much lower than the usual 32 ETH (about $81,000) required to launch an Ethereum node.
