The prices of lido DAO, rocket pool, and frax share, the three biggest governance tokens for Ethereum liquid staking protocols, have dropped between 4.6% and 9% in the last 24 hours ahead of the network's upgrade. These losses are worse than ether, which has only lost 2.4% of its value in the last 24 hours and 2% over the last week. Liquid staking protocols allow people to stake their ether and receive a derivative token that represents the locked cryptocurrency, with governance tokens used to manage how the protocols develop. The Shapella upgrade will allow ether stakers to unstake their ether and withdraw their coins.

(By Tim Copeland)