# 2026 Ecosystem Grant gRequest (EGG): Executing GOOSE-3 **URL:** \ **Category:** Proposals\ **Created:** [December 2, 2025, 9:18am UTC](https://research.lido.fi/t/2026-ecosystem-grant-grequest-egg-executing-goose-3/10951 "2025-12-02T09:18:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![vsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b19c9b/32.png) [@vsh](https://research.lido.fi/u/vsh)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 10:12am UTC](https://research.lido.fi/t/2026-ecosystem-grant-grequest-egg-executing-goose-3/10951/12 "2025-12-16T10:12:28Z")
> [@BCV](#): > > As I understand it, returning any unused or excess budget is currently entirely dependent on the goodwill of Lido Labs. That introduces another trust assumption, especially given the size of the spending involved. There’s no independent financial control over Labs, but DAO can change the leadership in the organizations if it wants to. The directors are also limited to acting in accordance with Purpose and Principles. > [@BCV](#): > > Since Lido Labs is currently the only company providing development and maintenance for the Lido protocol, the DAO doesn’t have many real options other than approving this proposal and accepting the requested budget, with little room for negotiation. That said, it’s still good to see a detailed breakdown of costs and clearly stated revenue goals in return. That’s not true: the option to change the devco would quite nuclear expensive in terms of disruption, but it’s completely realistic. All the levers in the Lido protocol are under ultimate DAO control and a group of determined activist tokenholders can boot Lido Labs out and replace with a different devco. There’s also a much less disruptive option of changing the directors of Lido Labs, only changing the leadership but not the whole contractor structure, assets or outside relationships. I do not think it’s good option, obviously, but it is an option on the table that is thoroughly maintained through Lido protocol development. It could be better for tokenholder to shop around between a bunch of equally competent, eager and motivated devcos (though it leaves an open question of long term vs short term relationships) but building even of these with sufficient level of knowledge and professionalism is not easy. --- _[View the full topic](https://research.lido.fi/t/2026-ecosystem-grant-grequest-egg-executing-goose-3/10951)._