Myrmidon Staking launches pooled ETH staking product on Lido V3 stVaults

Ethereum staking has long had a cover charge. Myrmidon Staking is trying to lower it to roughly the price of a nice lunch. The Denmark-based validator operator has launched the Myrmidon Staking ETH Pool, a pooled staking product built on Lido V3 stVaults. Users can stake with as little as 0.01 ETH. The product went live on October 14, 2026, and Lido itself promoted the launch. What Myrmidon is actually offering The pool runs on Lido’s stVaults, the modular staking infrastructure introduced with Lido V3. Myrmidon also uses Lido’s DeFi Wrapper toolkit, which is designed for pooled delegated staking setups. The economics are straightforward. Myrmidon charges a node operator fee of 10% on staking rewards. Stakers keep the rest of what their ETH earns, and the fee only applies to rewards, not to the principal deposited. The pool also carries a reserve ratio of 50%, one of the configurable risk settings within the stVaults framework. Myrmidon has set a modest goal: 1,000 ETH staked in the new pool within 12 months of launch. For those who want to go directly, the pool’s staking address, 0x456…409322, is listed on lido.fi. The operator behind the pool Myrmidon has run Ethereum validators ...