Lido Engineering Lead Warns of Staking Deposit Hijacking Risk During Ethereum Glamsterdam Upgrade Transition

PANews October 20 news, according to Crypto Briefing, Lido engineering lead Dima Gusakov disclosed that during the Ethereum Glamsterdam hard fork transition, delegated staking protocols face front-running attack risks. Glamsterdam will introduce builder deposits using 0xB0-prefixed withdrawal credentials. Before and after the fork, such deposits will share the deposit queue with validator deposits, allowing malicious node operators to front-run stakers' funds so that they are credited to the attacker's builder account, while the corresponding validators cannot be activated. The related fix proposal (consensus-specs #5735) has been closed as "not planned," and defense requires each staking protocol to perform pre-deposit checks on its own. Glamsterdam will activate on the Hoodi testnet in the early hours of October 27, with mainnet launch planned for the fourth quarter.