Lido brings ETH staking to US clients of BitGo Bank & Trust
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BitGo Bank & Trust opened Ether staking for eligible U.S. customers through Lido on Wednesday, October 7, extending a service it had already rolled out in Europe and Asia in mid-2025. The setup lets customers stake ETH inside existing BitGo accounts, hold stETH, and convert stETH back into ETH on the same platform.
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What it means
Eligible U.S. institutional clients using BitGo Bank & Trust are the ones who can notice this change first, because the staking service is now available in their existing accounts. The same setup also gives those users access to stETH and the ability to move back into ETH on the same platform, which changes what they can do inside BitGo today.
In practice, staking and conversion are being handled inside BitGo accounts rather than through a separate workflow, and the U.S. rollout now sits alongside the earlier Europe and Asia rollout from mid-2025. What stays the same is that access is limited to eligible customers, so the change is an expansion of availability rather than a change to every BitGo user.
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