# Introduction to LIS

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Lido Impact Staking (LIS) connects to Lido's Ethereum liquid staking engine to fund a social impact marketplace of organisations and people who are making the world a better place by using staking returns to alleviate poverty, fight climate change and more.

*For Stablecoin for Impact documentation, please click* [*here*](https://app.gitbook.com/o/TzKLsyjJslzXpfWGMeLf/s/MTr7Fv5f9KTrhWzuBIi0/)*.*&#x20;

LIS has been built to use ETH/stETH/wstETH staking as a new long-term financing tool to fund social impact.&#x20;

The initial key goals are to:

1. Allow ETH/stETH/wstETH stakers to donate a percentage of their staking returns to fund social impact.
2. To allow donors a model where they get their money/original capital back at the end of a given time period.
3. Establish a marketplace of credible organisations alleviating poverty, fighting climate change and pursuing other forms of social impact, in a data-rich context that makes it easy to understand and measure the benefits of the impact they are delivering.&#x20;

Lido Impact Staking (LIS) also exists to challenge a widely held belief by the general public that blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies are a speculative gamble with no societal benefits.  There is also a malaise within web3 and blockchain communities that the focus for builders in this space is heavily skewed towards financial gain at all costs. &#x20;

Lido Impact Staking demonstrates that these perceptions are not indicative of the Web3 community overall and that Ethereum and staking, can be a serious long-term financing tool to address the world’s most pressing problems.

### How to Stake Walkthrough

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