Lido cuts the bridge out of staking, ships direct ETH deposits to four L2s via Chainlink CCIP

Lido has launched direct ETH staking through its own interface on Arbitrum, Base, Linea and Optimism, using Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol to move assets without requiring users to bridge manually. The integration was announced on October 15 and extends to Lido's official platform a routing capability the protocol had previously offered through third-party interfaces.

Under the new flow, users deposit ETH into Lido's existing interface and receive wrapped staked ETH ($wstETH) from on-network liquidity pools on the chosen Layer-2. Chainlink CCIP coordinates the cross-chain transfer while the underlying staking operations remain on Ethereum mainnet, where Lido mints the wstETH and returns it to the originating network to replenish the pool.

Lido retains 10% of staking rewards under the arrangement, with participants responsible for Layer-2 gas fees on the supported networks. The design is intended to remove the previous requirement of transferring ETH to Ethereum mainnet before staking and later bringing the staking receipt token back to a Layer-2 environment.

The rollout covers four named networks, Arbitrum, Base, Linea and Optimism, with wstETH issued on each to represent the staked position. The token's exchange value rises as staking rewards accrue on Ethereum mainnet, where the underlying validation continues to take place.

By handling the cross-chain coordination through Chainlink CCIP and sourcing wstETH from in-network pools, the new path consolidates staking into a single interface step on each Layer-2 rather than a multi-stage bridge-and-stake workflow. Lido has now made that consolidated flow available directly on its platform.