Lido DAO voted June 15–22, 2026 to strip canonical wstETH bridge status from nine L2 and sidechain networks, the first formal contraction of a multichain expansion program the protocol launched two years ago. The Snapshot vote passed 57.4 million LDO in favor to 122 opposed.
Canonical status is the DAO's official designation for supported bridge endpoints — the networks Lido formally recommends to integrators. Losing the label does not disable any contracts or bridge infrastructure; wstETH on the affected chains remains valid and can be bridged back to Ethereum. The proposal states the vote "does not place currently bridged or future-bridged tokens at risk" and that "no immediate action is required from holders."
The nine affected networks are zkSync Era, Mode, Scroll, Mantle, Swell, Zircuit, Soneium, Polygon PoS, and Lisk. The DAO cited a distinct reason for each: zkSync Era's bridge infrastructure is deprecated; Swell is in chain sunset; Mantle pivoted toward competing liquid staking tokens; Polygon PoS shifted strategy away from DeFi; Mode, Scroll, Soneium, and Lisk failed to build meaningful DeFi adoption; Zircuit's TVL declined significantly since launch. The June 23 blog post details the rationale chain by chain.
The same vote authorizes the Network Expansion Committee to execute future revocations without a full DAO Snapshot vote, provided the NEC achieves unanimous support and publishes a forum post with documented rationale.
