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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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