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Stake ETH across multiple protocols at once
Restaking enables staked ETH to be used as cryptoeconomic security for protocols other than Ethereum, in exchange for protocol fees and rewards.

Restaking is available for both natively staked ETH and liquid staked tokens like stETH, rETH, cbETH, and LsETH.
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Validate more networks, with lower marginal costs
Provide new protocols with validation services that are designed to complement your existing Ethereum validation operations.

Optimize usage across your nodes, and maximize capital efficiency with minimal incremental cost.
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A vibrant new ecosystem for builders
EigenLayer provides developers with access to the Ethereum staked capital base and decentralized validator set. Access to this trust network can make previously impossible mechanism designs possible.

See our whitepaper for a list of use cases that developers can build on EigenLayer, and discuss your ideas in the forum below.
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Staked ETH and Liquid Staked Tokens
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the eigenlayer ecosystem
Restakers
Stake ETH across multiple protocols at once
Restaking enables staked ETH to be used as cryptoeconomic security for protocols other than Ethereum, in exchange for protocol fees and rewards.

Restaking is available for both natively staked ETH and liquid staked tokens like stETH, rETH, cbETH, and LsETH.
restake NOW
Operators
Validate more networks, with lower marginal costs
Provide new protocols with validation services that are designed to complement your existing Ethereum validation operations.

Optimize usage across your nodes, and maximize capital efficiency with minimal incremental cost.
learn more about eigenlayer
Developers
A vibrant new ecosystem for builders
Eigenlayer provides developers with access to the Ethereum staked capital base and decentralized validator set. Access to this trust network can make previously impossible mechanism designs possible.

See our whitepaper for a list of use cases that developers can build on Eigenlayer, and discuss your ideas in the forum below.
eigenlayer discussion forum
Staked ETH and Liquid Staked Tokens
Restake via EigenLayer
Delegate to selected operators
Opt in to secure/validate new protocols
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Data Availability
Restaking can enable a hyperscale Data Availability (DA) layer, with a high DA rate and low cost. EigenLabs is building the first DA layer on EigenLayer, called EigenDA.
read eigenda documentation
02
Decentralized Sequencers
ETH restakers can form a single decentralized sequencer quorum that serves many rollups, enabling MEV management and censorship resistance.
03
Light Node Bridges
Restakers can verify off-chain whether bridge inputs are correct, and if a strong quorum signs off, then the inputs are accepted. If someone challenges, then the input can be verified and EigenLayer operators can be slashed in the slow mode.
04
Fast-Mode Bridges
Restakers can participate in ZK proof verification off-chain, and certify that proofs are correct on-chain. If incorrect, they can be slashed in slow mode. For optimistic rollups, EigenLayer enables a larger collateral pool to certify stateroots.
05
Oracles
Oracles that enshrine price feeds into Ethereum can be built via EigenLayer if they require majority trust on restaked ETH, and are opt-in layers.
06
Opt-In Event-Driven Activation
In EigenLayer, Ethereum validators who are block proposers and opted in to restaking can provide strong guarantees on inclusion of event-driven actions, at the risk of getting slashed.
07
MEV Management
A variety of MEV management methods are feasible under EigenLayer, including PBS, MEV smoothing, and threshold encryption for transaction inclusion.
Read about MEV-Boost++
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Low-Latency Settlement Chains
EigenLayer allows restaked sidechains where ETH restakers can participate in new consensus protocols which have low latency and high throughput.
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Single-Slot Finality
Restaked nodes can attest they will not build on a chain that does not include a testified block, creating a finality pathway. Designing this to be opt-in and compatible with the consensus protocol is an important direction of research.
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Contribute your research and ideas to the EigenLayer ecosystem. Let’s build the future of blockchains together! We look forward to meeting you.
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