Lido DAO Token (LDO)

Meanwhile, @LidoFinance lost ~26% TVL in the last 30d. Imo, it’s more about the whole Ethereum Foundation identity crisis. Look, ETH went from ~$2,306 on May 9 to around ~$1,649 today, and that’s roughly a 28% drop, while Lido’s TVL fell around 26% over the same period. When ETH drops, Lido’s TVL drops too, as people want to exit their ETH positions. Snowball effect.

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CT went WILD over Cobie dumping $LDO. Here is what happened: Lookonchain reported Cobie dumped 20M $LDO ($6.58M) across Binance, Kraken, OKX, Bybit & Gate. Cobie clarified that those are Wintermute's wallets, not his. "Why would I be using 5 exchanges simultaneously? Please use your brain." Meanwhile, $LDO is showing resilience against the market sell‑off.

TVL is falling but volume is rising. what does that mean? the answer is simple, it's telling us DeFi is changing Total DeFi TVL ➛ $78.81B (-1.87% 24h) DEX Volume (24h) ➛ $8.09B (+28.77%) Perps Volume (24h) ➛ $31.29B (+40.70%) Stablecoin Market Cap ➛ $317.96B (-0.76% 7d) liquidity is leaving but trading activity is rising. both happening at the same time sounds contradictory but it's actually saying something specific ‣ big names losing TVL Lido ➛ $17.56B (-5.89%) Aave V3 ➛ $13.02B (-5.09%) Uniswap V3 ➛ $1.62B (-3.76%) Curve DEX ➛ $1.59B (-3.84%) Morpho Blue ➛ $7.21B (-4.16%) ‣ but what's happening on the fee/revenue side? Hyperliquid ➛ fee 24h: $3.67M, revenue 24h: $2.90M (trending up) Aave V3 ➛ fee 24h: $1.05M, revenue 24h: $136K (trending down) Uniswap V3 ➛ fee 24h: $586K, revenue 24h: $91K (trending up) the critical thing here: Hyperliquid is generating 3.5x more fees than Aave today. almost no TVL. massive revenue ‣ chain-level divergence Ethereum ➛ TVL: $41.59B, 7d: -3.53% Solana ➛ TVL: $5.25B, 7d: -3.76% Arbitrum ➛ TVL: $1.41B, 7d: -6.82% Base ➛ TVL: $4.27B, 7d: -3.5% Hyperliquid L1 ➛ TVL: $1.74B $448M net bridge outflow from Ethereum in 7 days. where is it going? most likely either stablecoins or Hyperliquid ‣ three different things are happening simultaneously ➛ passive liquidity is leaving. TVL in protocols like Lido, Aave, Curve is largely deposited-and-forgotten money. as ETH price drops this TVL automatically erodes in dollar terms. not a real panic sell, just price effect ➛ active trading is rising. DEX volume +28.77%, perps volume +40.70% shows the market is moving. people are taking positions, hedging, speculating. but they're not providing liquidity to do it, they're just using existing liquid markets ➛ capital is migrating to perps. Hyperliquid alone holds 55% of on-chain perps open interest. in May 2026 it processed $172.6B in volume, 31.9% of all decentralized perps volume. a year ago that number was 3.5% and something fundamental is shifting in how we read this data TVL is no longer measuring DeFi's health in 2020-2021 TVL = usage = growth. that made sense because yield farming existed, people deposited money and earned APY in 2026 that equation is broken fee/TVL ratio is now a far more meaningful metric. and by that ratio Hyperliquid is leaving traditional DeFi protocols behind by a wide margin