#restaking

3 stories

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

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

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