# Restaking

Restaking is now in its reality-check phase and that’s usually where infrastructure narratives either harden into long-term categories or get trimmed down to what actually works at scale.
$EIGEN sits inside that transition through Ethereum’s restaking design: extending staked ETH security to other protocols so new services don’t need to bootstrap trust from scratch.
On paper, the model is efficient. Shared economic security reduces duplication, speeds up innovation, and allows new infrastructure layers to launch with inherited trust rather than starting at zero.
But the trade-offs are becoming