# Lido-on-Ethereum Community Validation Manifesto
**N.B.** we are using the term community stakers/validators in the below document to refer to a superset of home stakers. This term encompasses any entity (a person or a group of people) whose values align strongly with Ethereum and whose **primary** motivation is not financial.

## The main purpose of Lido strategy
Lido’s mission is to align with the Ethereum core values of decenstralization, credible neutrality and censorship resistance.

Since its inception in Dec 2020, the Lido DAO has worked hard to bring Proof-of-Stake Ethereum closer to the realization of these values.

The benefits that Lido bring must be tangible and practical. These results must not only be proclaimed, but also demonstrated. Lido has a significant share of the staking market. As a result Lido DAO contributors feel particularly responsible for the changes we bring and the decisions we make.

## What does it mean to be aligned with Ethereum values?
We want to do our utmost best to help keep Ethereum:

* Credibly neutral
* Censorship resistant
* Resilient
### In order to achieve this, we are committed to the following principles:

**Support and nurture community stakers**
Ethereum’s ability to recover from a majority attack relies on the existence of a long tail of community stakers, aligned with Ethereum’s values, who are able to fork and keep the original network running whatever happens. We want to do everything we can to help support and nurture this demographic.

**Increase Ethereum’s technical, geographical, and jurisdictional resilience**
Increasing the diversity of Lido’s validator set across these three dimensions – technical, geographical, jurisdictional – makes Ethereum more resistant to software bugs, wars, natural disasters, government/legal overreach, and censorship attacks. It also helps ensure a wider representation of voices at the social layer.

**Create more replicas of the network state**
Every extra independent replica of the network state makes Ethereum more resistant to censorship and increases the odds of recovery from a catastrophic event.

## In order to embody these principles, we need to achieve the following goals:
1. Increase both the type and number of independent node operators we support (without compromising on quality)
1. Develop better and fairer criteria for entry into the Lido set of node operators
1. Lower the barriers to becoming a node operator
1. Make it as easy as possible for home stakers to onboard and become professional operators (should they wish to do so)