Lido completed its first validator consolidation on the Hoodi testnet, kicking off a multi-month plan to consolidate its validator set from roughly 240,000 nodes down to 3,750 using MaxEB.
Lido's Node Operator Working Group laid out a roadmap that uses MaxEB — the increase in maximum effective balance per validator shipped with Pectra — to reduce the operational footprint of the Lido validator set by roughly 98%. The first batch was consolidated successfully on the Hoodi testnet ahead of mainnet rollout.
Validator consolidation is the second-order benefit of MaxEB and one of the larger operational efficiencies Pectra enabled. For staking pools running tens of thousands of validators, consolidation reduces signing load, attestation aggregation pressure, and infrastructure cost without changing economic security.
Lido plans staged consolidation on mainnet as the Hoodi testnet validates the procedure end-to-end. Other large operators are expected to follow once Lido publishes a public post-mortem.
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