Liquid staking


Tech

RedStone, Blockchain Oracle Project Pushing Into Restaking, Raises $15M

The fresh round of capital will go towards hiring new team members, according to a press release.

RedStone Oracles co-founders Jakub Wojciechowski and Marcin Kazmierczak (RedStone)

Learn

What Is Restaking? What Is Liquid Restaking? What Is EigenLayer?

EigenLayer and similar "restaking" protocols are currently the buzziest investment in blockchain, but the technology isn't without risks.

Recycling (Pawel Czerwinski/Unsplash)

Tech

Liquid Restaking Protocol Puffer Raises $18M, Led by Brevan Howard, Electric Capital

The fresh round of capital will be used to help launch Puffer’s mainnet.

Puffer fish (Stelio Puccinelli/Unsplash)

Tech

EigenLayer, Crypto's Biggest Project Launch This Year, Is Still Missing Crucial Functionality

The "restaking" protocol with $15 billion in deposits won't pay rewards to depositors and is missing its mission-critical "slashing" feature.

EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan at ETHDenver 2024 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Filecoin Liquid Staking Platform STFIL Claims Team Members Under Investigation by Chinese Police

Tokens on the platform were moved to an "unknown, external address" last week while its team members were under detention

magnifying glass, investigation (Shutterstock)

Tech

Ethereum Foundation Researchers' Proposal to Slow ETH Issuance Draws Pushback

The proposal, introduced in February, could harden Ethereum's native cryptocurrency, ether (ETH), as a form of money – by reducing the inflation of new supply. But some members of the community say if it's not broke, don't fix it.

Ethereum (ethereum.org)

Markets

Ethena Labs' ENA Token Goes Live, Starts Trading at 64 Cents

Ethena has invited holders of USDe to claim their share of the airdrop of 750 million ENA tokens, equating to 5% of the total supply

Ethena's governance token ENA (Ethena Labs)

Tech

Liquid Restaking Tokens: What Are They and Why Do They Matter?

LRTs repurpose staked ether to support external systems like rollups and oracles with an economic security layer, explains Marcin Kazmierczak, Co-Founder of RedStone & Warp.cc.

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Tech

Liquid Restaking Protocol Puffer Rakes in $1B in Deposits in Just 3 Weeks

Liquid restaking protocols are seeing ample demand from users as speculation mounts over potential applications for the Ethereum restaking juggernaut EigenLayer, and the prospects for rewards paid out to early users.

Puffer fish (Stelio Puccinelli/Unsplash)

Tech

Lido Tests of 'Distributed Validator Technology' Portend 2024 Decentralization Push

A big selling point of blockchain networks is that they are "decentralized." But just a few validators, including those run by Lido, have gradually amassed a lion's share of the power over the dominant smat-contracts blockchain, Ethereum. One idea is to decentralize the validators themselves.

"Validators are single-engine planes. If a validator goes down, it's offline," said Brett Li, head of growth at Obol Labs. (Daniel Eledut/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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