Restaking
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In Brief
Restaking reuses assets that are already staked to help secure additional protocols and services, earning extra rewards on top of base staking yield — at the cost of extra slashing conditions and smart-contract risk.
What Is Restaking?
Restaking is the practice of reusing assets that are already staked to help secure additional protocols and services, earning extra rewards on top of the base staking yield. The same capital backs more than one system — and can be penalized (slashed) by more than one system if things go wrong.
The idea emerged on Ethereum, where staked ETH secures the network and restaking protocols let that stake also back additional services — oracles, bridges, data layers — that need economic security but lack a validator set of their own. Liquid restaking tokens extend the idea by making restaked positions tradable.
How Restaking Works
You stake an asset (directly or through a liquid staking token) and earn base rewards.
You opt that stake into a restaking protocol, which delegates its security to additional services.
Those services pay extra rewards for the protection your stake provides.
In exchange, your stake becomes slashable under each service's rules — misbehavior anywhere can cost you.
Risks to Understand
Stacked slashing: every added service is another set of conditions that can burn your stake.
Smart-contract layers: each protocol in the chain is code that can fail or be exploited.
Liquidity risk: liquid restaking tokens can trade below the value of what they represent, especially under stress.
Complexity itself: if you can't explain who can slash you and why, the position is bigger than your understanding.
Restaking and Trust Wallet
Trust Wallet supports staking on major networks directly in the app with your keys under your control, and its dApp browser lets you reach DeFi protocols — including restaking platforms — while you review every transaction before signing. Extra yield always arrives attached to extra risk; make sure you can name it.