Restaking in 2025: Doubling Security, Tripling Opportunities in DeFi! 🚀🔒
The concept of restaking, popularized by EigenLayer, is one of the main trends in DeFi in 2025. It is a process where users who have already staked ETH for securing Ethereum 'restake' their assets (or their LST equivalents) to secure additional protocols and services.
How it works: Instead of launching a new network of validators with its own security, AVS can utilize the combined security of EigenLayer's restakers.
Slashing: Restakers agree to additional slashing conditions (penalties) for malicious behavior when validating AVS, which provides an economic guarantee for these services.
Capital Efficiency: Restaking increases capital efficiency by allowing the same amount of ETH to secure multiple layers of security.
Innovative Potential: It opens doors to entirely new types of decentralized applications that require a high level of trust and security.
Restaking is not just additional income; it is a fundamental shift in the architecture of security in decentralized networks.