Do You Need to Think Twice Before Restaking Your Assets?
Episode 488
In this episode, Sreeram Kannan, founder of EigenLayer, and Konstantin Lomashuk, cofounder of Lido Finance, discuss the complex world of staking in Ethereum's post-Shanghai ecosystem.
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Show highlights:
- how the staking ecosystem in Ethereum looks after the full completion of the Merge
- what EigenLayer is and why it's called that
- whether EigenLayer's model is more similar to Polkadot or, actually, to Ethereum Layer 2s
- what the risks of restaking are, for both projects and users
- how Lido is working to keep Ethereum decentralized and censorship-resistant
- what superfluid staking is and whether it could be done on Ethereum
- how EigenLayer incentivizes alignment between the delegator and the stakers
- whether there's a risk that Lido could become a governance layer for Ethereum
- what can be done to increase staking services adoption
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