Lido, the largest Ethereum staking protocol by total value locked, launched Curated Module v2, a new version of its main staking module that for the first time requires professional node operators to back the stake they manage with their own capital, the team said in a blog post published Monday.

The liquid-staking giant is consolidating more than 8 million ether onto a lean validator architecture to drop overall network message traffic by nearly 30%.

Ethereum staking protocol Lido has begun consolidating more than 8 million ETH onto Ethereum’s larger post-Pectra 0x02 validators.