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Sharplink is putting another $200 million of its Ethereum treasury to work through Lido, adding liquid staking to a strategy already built around staking and restaking. The company will receive wrapped staked ETH, or wstETH, representing staked ETH and its associated rewards, while Anchorage Digital will provide custody. The notable shift is that Sharplink is seeking higher treasury productivity without giving up liquidity. By using wstETH, the company can remain exposed to ETH, continue earning staking rewards and gain access to additional decentralized finance opportunities across Ethereum. This expands its already active onchain yield program.
Lido currently accounts for a majority of all liquid-staked ETH, with roughly $16.5 billion of ETH staked through the protocol. Its wstETH token is integrated across more than 100 protocols, with around $10 billion actively used as collateral. That scale gives Sharplink a route into DeFi through one of Ethereum’s most widely integrated staking assets. CEO Joseph Chalom said the allocation expands treasury productivity while maintaining institutional-grade risk standards, adding that Lido deepens diversification and connects the company with major Ethereum-native protocols. That depth also supports liquidity across a broad application ecosystem.
The structure allows Sharplink to stake ETH without surrendering the flexibility to deploy tokenized positions elsewhere. Because wstETH can move across Ethereum DeFi while the underlying ETH keeps earning staking rewards, the asset can potentially support additional onchain yield strategies. The appeal lies in combining baseline staking income with composability instead of choosing between yield and liquidity. Lido Institutional said this model reflects a broader change in how institutions hold Ethereum, as treasuries increasingly seek productive assets that can remain flexible enough for wider deployment strategies for larger institutional treasury management.
Sharplink framed the $200 million allocation as part of its effort to make its ETH holdings more productive for shareholders. The company describes itself as an institutional-grade Ethereum treasury platform and says its strategy is designed to provide public-market investors with more productive exposure to ETH. The latest move pushes that thesis deeper into Ethereum’s native financial infrastructure rather than simply holding tokens on the balance sheet. Still, Sharplink’s announcement emphasizes that the allocation expands an existing staking and restaking approach, making Lido another component in a broader treasury strategy rather than a standalone shift.
