I stayed up all night watching funding rates, and suddenly thought: what if I re-stake this thing again?

Basically, you put ETH into Lido for 3%, then re-stake it into EigenLayer to earn additional re-staking rewards—looks like you’re stacking buffs. But the whole “shared security” concept, honestly, I think it’s pretty flimsy. The safety of the assets you stake depends on the weakest link across the entire protocol chain. If an AVS goes wrong, your principal could be hit right along with it.

Especially with all the unlock calendars floating around lately, the sell-pressure anxiety is already bad enough. Re-staking just makes your potential gains stack higher, while your risk stacks higher too.

I’m the type who trades long on short timeframes, so I’m used to stop-loss as a hard rule. For this re-staking play, keeping track of funding rates at night is already exhausting for me. Add monitoring AVS status, and I basically wouldn’t sleep anymore. That’s it for now. Anyway, I’d rather choose a simpler strategy—protecting my principal matters more than anything.