# eigen

Restaking is becoming one of Ethereum’s biggest infrastructure experiments because it turns security into a reusable economic layer.
$EIGEN sits directly inside the question of whether Ethereum’s staked capital can secure more than Ethereum itself. That idea matters because every new middleware layer, oracle, bridge, AVS, and modular service needs trust, validation, and economic security.
The stronger EigenLayer thesis is not just yield.
It is the possibility that security itself becomes a market. Instead of every new protocol building its own validator set from scratch, restaking allows Ether