Lido DAO is discussing whether its 2027 grant budget should guide automated purchases of the LDO governance token. The discussion exposed flaws in NEST, the token buyback engine, which calculates buyback capacity based on staking revenue. Its negative expenditure counter recorded -$564,230.96 on October 13, causing allocations to be skipped. Governance contributor Kuzmich proposed linking NEST's revenue threshold to approved expenditures to achieve true cost reductions, thereby freeing up more revenue for LDO purchases. Another contributor, Jenya_K, supported considering this option in the 2027 grant request but emphasized that the amount must be based on bottom-up planning. NEST's current buybacks are capped at $50,000 daily and $10 million within a 365-day window.