Restaking Brief: EigenLayer's Shared Security Model
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EigenLayer's restaking primitive hit a $238M TVL surge in hours in August 2023. Review the shared-security thesis, risks, and how to evaluate allocation.
Frequently Asked Questions
- EigenLayer is a set of Ethereum smart contracts that let holders of staked ETH or liquid staking tokens opt in to secure additional services, called Actively Validated Services, in exchange for extra rewards. It reuses Ethereum's existing validator security instead of building a new trust layer from zero.
- Ordinary staking secures only the Ethereum base layer and carries Ethereum's own slashing rules. Restaking layers additional, service-specific slashing conditions on top of that same capital, so the same ETH backs multiple commitments and multiple risk profiles at once.
- Family offices, venture funds, and sovereign allocators already exposed to Ethereum staking infrastructure, who want to understand a new yield-and-risk layer building on top of validator sets they may already be invested in or adjacent to.
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