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Institutional ETH Staking Boosted By Rate Hikes?💧Lido INTERVIEW

Mittwoch, 2. September 2026 · 24 min

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Lido joins us with September rate hike odds near 66% ahead of the FOMC decision on the 16th. We get into stablecoin yields versus ETH staking after a hike, the 21-bank stablecoin coming for that yield, and where institutional staking stands after V3.

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Guest: Kean Gilbert, Head of Institutional Relations at Lido
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Intro
Sponsor: EtherFi
USD stablecoin yields if Fed Hikes?
ETH staking if Fed Hikes?
ETH staking vs Stablecoin staking
Banks rushing to steal your stablecoin yields?
Current state of institutional staking
Bitmine competing against Lido for institutional marketshare?
What is Lido doing to increase its marketshare?
What other ways are institutions using liquid staked tokens?
Institutional Restaking coming?
Will Rate Hikes exacerbate Morpho growth?
Looped USD yields: Is 7% too low?
Vaults: why does Lido now restrict U.S. users?
DeFi exploits vs Vault adoption
Automatic Native Yields: is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Did SEC pave the way for a two tiered DeFi ecosystem?
Solana proved its capable of voting to lower issuance. What does this signal for ETH?
When $LDO fee switch?

#Crypto #Ethereum #federalreserve
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