According to Binance, Actively Validated Services (AVS) let new protocols borrow Ethereum’s economic security through restaking frameworks like EigenLayer, where operators validate services for additional rewards while restakers face slashing risks if operators misbehave, Source: Binance Academy. AVS participation can occur via native restaking or through liquid staking and liquid restaking tokens (LSTs/LRTs), routing extra AVS rewards to restakers but adding smart contract, operator, and slashing exposure, Source: Binance Academy. Use cases include oracles, data availability layers, cross-chain bridges, coprocessors, and middleware that can bootstrap faster by leveraging pooled security and paying fees to restakers and operators, Source: Binance Academy. Key risks highlighted include correlated slashing across multiple AVS, technical or governance failures at the AVS or operator level, and withdrawal or operational frictions that require careful evaluation of risk-adjusted yields, Source: Binance Academy. For trading, the additional AVS reward stream and slashing profile are core variables that market participants monitor in LST/LRT strategies and ETH restaking yield stacks, Source: Binance Academy.

According to @ai_9684xtpa, research firm Delphi Digital’s latest report defines EigenLayer as a verifiable cloud and compares it to AWS because both provide base infrastructure, reduce developer costs, and anchor core revenue streams, making it a key ETH restaking narrative for traders to track, source: Delphi Digital report via @ai_9684xtpa. EigenLayer’s current scale is cited as TVL of 19.9 billion, 11 active AVSs, and hundreds of node operators, indicating growing demand for restaked security and infrastructure usage, source: @ai_9684xtpa citing EigenLayer’s official X account. The AWS-style framing and these on-chain metrics give traders concrete adoption gauges to monitor for ETH liquidity and restaking activity, including TVL trends, AVS deployment cadence, and operator participation, source: Delphi Digital report.

According to @ai_9684xtpa, EigenLayer’s total value locked reached an all-time high of 22 billion dollars on Aug 14, driven by ETH reserve firms staking ETH purchased on the open market and by ETH’s August price appreciation, source: @ai_9684xtpa on X, Sep 3, 2025. The same source reports that ETHZilla announced a 100 million dollar ETH deposit into EigenLayer, pointing to additional inflows into the restaking protocol, source: @ai_9684xtpa on X, Sep 3, 2025.