Lido SRv3 Oracle Trust Gap Could Enable Module Fee Manipulation
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A community researcher flags that Lido's SRv3 Accounting Oracle gives a dishonest quorum a more targeted ability to redirect module fees by manipulating per-module validator balance reports, and proposes optimistic or ZK-based mitigations; no immediate exploit is claimed but the trust assumption is materially expanded versus the prior design.
- Status
- Active
- Confirmation
- Unconfirmed
- Event type
- NETWORK_UPGRADE
- Market scope
- ASSET
- Direction
- -1
- Impact / urgency
- 2 / 2
- Impact category
- MODERATE
- Risk stance
- RISK OFF
- Promotion
- CONTEXT · 52/100
- Promotion reason
- Identifies a concrete, previously undiscussed trust-model expansion in a live or pending protocol upgrade affecting a major liquid-staking protocol; the attack vector is mechanistically specific and quantified, making this more than a generic risk discussion.
- Duration class
- STRUCTURAL
- Assets
- LDO, stETH
- Sectors
- DeFi, Ethereum Infrastructure, Liquid Staking
- First detected
- Impact started
- Scheduled for
- Not published
- Occurred at
- Not published
Sources
[Discussion] Verifying SRv3 module balances
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