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By Jean-Luc Maracon
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Three Roles, One Security Layer. The mechanics involve three distinct actors. Restakers are the ETH holders who commit their assets…
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EigenDA and the Cost Reduction Play. One of the biggest AVSs running on EigenLayer is EigenDA, a data availability layer.
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Liquid Restaking Adds Complexity. Then there's the liquid restaking layer. Protocols like Ether.
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EigenLayer is doing something genuinely new. The platform, built as a set of smart contracts on Ethereum, lets validators use their staked ETH to secure multiple protocols at…
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The concept is called restaking, and it builds directly on what Ethereum set up when it moved to proof of stake back in September 2022.
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The mechanics involve three distinct actors. Restakers are the ETH holders who commit their assets to EigenLayer. Operators run the software that makes everything function.
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Each AVS gets to set its own rules. Validation criteria, slashing conditions, reward structures — all defined by the AVS itself. That flexibility is a feature, not a bug.
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By mid-2026, over 20 AVSs had gone live on EigenLayer. That's not a trivial number for a protocol that's still relatively young.
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One of the biggest AVSs running on EigenLayer is EigenDA, a data availability layer. Rollups — the scaling solutions that process transactions off Ethereum's main chain — can use…
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That's the pitch for AVSs more broadly. Decentralized oracle networks, cross-chain bridges, and similar infrastructure services all need strong economic guarantees to function…
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EigenLayer also accepts ERC-20 tokens as restakable assets, not just ETH and its derivatives. That's a meaningful expansion of the collateral base.
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Then there's the liquid restaking layer. Protocols like Ether.fi, Renzo, Puffer, and Kelp have built on top of EigenLayer, issuing tradable tokens that represent restaked…
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But they add risk. Real risk. Each liquid restaking protocol runs its own smart contracts, its own governance, its own potential failure points.
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Still, the capital kept flowing. EigenLayer hit over $15 billion in assets at its peak. That number tells you something about how much appetite there is for yield stacking — the…
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