The DAO buys LDO back; a big lock opens in January.
LDO is the voting coin of Lido, the largest Ethereum staking service. 1B LDO exist and no new ones are printed. The DAO treasury holds 121.50M.
Sell pressure. Nothing new reached the market in 90 days. On Jan 1 2027 a one-year lock of 48.93M LDO, recovered after a holder was hacked, opens.
Buy pressure. The treasury bought 6.79M LDO back with staked ETH and kept it. A fourth batch, about 6.20M, is due by Nov 24 2026.
Net. Supply fell 0.82%; next 90 days it grows about 5.15%.
LDO has no emission schedule. Exactly 1B LDO existed on Jul 30 2026 and on Oct 28 2026, and none was minted in between. New LDO could only be created by a DAO vote, and no such vote has been proposed.
The original team and investor vesting ended in 2022. Nothing unlocked in these 90 days. On Jan 1 2027 a single lock of 48.93M LDO opens: these are the coins of a large early holder whose wallet was hacked in December 2025, which a DAO vote recovered and locked for one year. That cliff falls inside the next 90 days and is counted there in full.
Sporadic — last firing Mar 2 2026, no public schedule for next 90 days. The DAO treasury holds 121.50M LDO and sent none out in these 90 days; it paid out about 7.6M LDO, mostly to its contributor reward programme, between Nov 2025 and Feb 2026. A market-making loan of up to 7.5M LDO from the treasury was approved in October 2026 but has not been used. Bought-back LDO also sits in this treasury, a public on-chain wallet anyone can check.
No bankruptcy estate or court-held pile of LDO waits to be released. The recovered hack coins are a timed lock, counted under vesting above.
Lido's automatic buyback went live in August 2026. It buys LDO only when the DAO's staking income beats about $40M a year, and income has stayed below that line, so its one order on Aug 13 2026 bought just 6,354 LDO. Nothing since, and nothing expected in the next 90 days. Bought LDO goes to the DAO treasury, not a burn.
LDO has no burn. Lido's staking fee is paid in staked ETH, not in LDO, and none of it destroys LDO.
The DAO trades staked ETH for LDO in batches of 1,000 and keeps the coins in its treasury. Batch three delivered 2.15M LDO on Aug 25 and 4.58M LDO on Sep 25 2026. Batch four started on Oct 2 2026 and must finish by Nov 24 2026; at today's price it buys about 6.20M LDO, counted in the next 90 days.
LDO has no staking or lock-up. Coins held to vote stay counted as circulating, so nothing is taken out here.
On Jul 31 2026 a contributor reward contract handed 56,513 unvested LDO back to the DAO treasury. These returns are rare and unplanned, so none is counted for the next 90 days.
Two sides: how much people want LDO right now, and how much buying could come later.
It shows how hot LDO is right now. A better rank means more people are talking about it.
Today, people are talking about LDO for two reasons:
On Oct 30 2026 Lido's treasury took in about $605,320, about 6.4 times its normal daily amount, as Ethereum block rewards jumped. The next day it fell back to a much smaller amount. People ask if days like this can help LDO, which is near $0.34.
A Lido forum post from Oct 27 2026 asks the DAO to pay up to $150,000 (hard cap $400,000) for an independent audit of the core team's 2024 to 2026 spending. The author says a vote is planned for Nov 5 2026. People ask if more open books would bring trust back to LDO.
Checked Nov 1 2026
Lido DAO (LDO) is inflationary right now: its supply changes +5.15% over the next 90 days and +1.42% over the next year (checked Oct 28 2026). More LDO is added than removed.
About +1.42% a year: that is how much Lido DAO (LDO) supply changes over the next 12 months, with +5.15% in the next 90 days (checked Oct 28 2026). That puts LDO #18 of 100 coins we track for new supply (#1 = the most new supply).
The next Lido DAO (LDO) unlock we track is on Jan 1 2027: about 48.9M LDO, 5.90% of the LDO in circulation (Recovered hack coins unlock). Checked Oct 28 2026.
Yes. In our count, about 6.2M LDO is expected to leave the market over the next 90 days through burns, buybacks or locks (checked Oct 28 2026). How it works: The DAO treasury bought back 6.79M LDO in 90 days with staked ETH and keeps it; about 6.20M more due by Nov 24 2026.
In our count, about 48.9M new LDO reaches the market over the next 90 days (checked Oct 28 2026). How it works: No new LDO is minted; 48.93M LDO locked after a Dec 2025 wallet hack unlock on Jan 1 2027.
About 830M LDO is in circulation (checked Oct 28 2026). Over the next 90 days that changes +5.15%, and over a year +1.42%.
Over the next 90 days (checked Oct 28 2026): LDO +5.15%, PENDLE +1.64%, FF +18.22%, SUN −0.03%. LDO sits in the middle of these 4 coins.
Every answer here applies basic economic theory — the law of supply and demand — to this coin's data. It is not financial advice. How we read every coin →
We look at two things: supply and demand. Fewer new coins mean less selling pressure. We also show each coin's age, with a warning when it is younger than 1 year. Demand shows how much people want the coin. Price Drivers (Beta) are the 2 or 3 things that can move one coin's price that supply and demand miss. LDO supply grows +5.15% in the next 90 days, so it shows in red: more LDO reaches the market than is removed. Zero or falling supply is always green, any growth is red.
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Related supply research: PENDLE +1.64% · FF +18.22% · SUN −0.03% · All crypto inflation rates (109 coins) → · Full LDO supply report → · Embed this coin
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