Lido vs Raydium

Lido is the largest liquid‑staking protocol, minting stETH and other LSTs that track underlying validator balances 1:1 minus a 10 % reward fee. Its dual‑dao governance splits responsibility between the Lido DAO and the protocol’s Node Operator Registry, reducing centralisation risk. By May 2025 over 9 million ETH—roughly 30 % of staked supply—was custodied under Lido smart contracts.

Raydium is a Solana AMM that mirrors liquidity onto the central limit order book of OpenBook, giving takers the best of AMM depth and CLOB price discovery. V2 introduced concentrated liquidity, personal farm vaults and an on‑chain RFQ engine for institutional flow. RADIO token emissions follow a halving schedule every six months to curb inflation.