#restaking
3 stories
Apr 11, 2026
Ethereum Restaking TVL Passes $50 Billion as EigenLayer Opens Permissionless AVSes
The restaking primitive just became programmable for anyone. Launch-day filings include seven oracle services, three bridges, and one suspiciously generic 'data availability' AVS.
Priya Shankar

Apr 9, 2026
DeFi Insurance Protocol Pays First Restaking Slash Claim in Under Nine Minutes
A small AVS misconfiguration led to a $1.4M slash across 62 restakers. Nexus Mutual's v4 policy paid out before most of the affected addresses noticed.
Nadia Levin

OpinionApr 4, 2026
Restaking Is Overbuilt, and Somebody Is About to Lose a Lot of Money
The AVSes don't need the security. The restakers don't understand the correlation. The yields are priced as though nothing can go wrong. One slash cascade away from a bad afternoon.
Sofia Marchetti