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 @MikeSilagadze, ether.fi has helped usher in three crypto trends: the 2023 points meta, protocol-owned vaults, and crypto neobanks. Source: @MikeSilagadze on X on Oct 8, 2025. He added that the team is locked in and that if they are doing something it is wise to pay attention, signaling active initiatives at ether.fi that market participants may track. Source: @MikeSilagadze on X on Oct 8, 2025.

According to Ai 姨 (@ai_9684xtpa), the ETH whale 0xD2E...eCa41 has sold 6401 ETH, purchased in December 2023 for $12.23 million, at a loss of $1.974 million. The whale's cost basis was $2219 per ETH, selling at $1910, resulting in a 14% asset shrinkage over 15 months. Staking income from various ETH LRTs did not cover the losses. Wallet details can be found at intel.arkm.com/explorer/addre….

According to @ai_9684xtpa, a whale or institutional entity with the address 0xbec...D3Ad3 withdrew 20,000 ETH from an unspecified source nine hours ago and subsequently deposited them into Binance, valued at $63.4 million. Over the past ten months, this address has withdrawn a total of 63,102 ETH from exchanges at an average price of $2,993. In the last three months, it has withdrawn from various LRTs and has cumulatively deposited 44,083 ETH into Binance. If sold, this could result in a profit of $6.27 million.

According to @ai_9684xtpa, an address linked to the Ethereum Foundation (0x22D...01246) staked 3000 ETH, valued at $6.9 million, in Kelp four hours ago. This address previously received a transfer of 4 million DAI from the Ethereum Foundation on May 10, 2022. Additionally, six months ago, the same address staked ETH worth $58.01 million in the LRT project and received an airdrop of 75,000 ETHFI tokens.

According to EmberCN, Penpie has suffered a security breach resulting in the theft of assets valued at $27.8 million, primarily consisting of LRT assets such as wstETH, agETH, and rswETH. The stolen assets were mostly converted into 11,109 ETH (approximately $26.95 million), with 1,000 ETH ($2.42 million) already laundered through Tornado Cash within the past hour. The hacker's initial funds also originated from Tornado Cash.

According to @EmberCN, Justin Sun has recently redeemed his LRT PT tokens, earning a profit of 984 ETH ($3.32M). Previously, he had invested 86,000 ETH ($290.33M) in three liquidity re-staking tokens with PT maturing on June 27. An hour ago, he swapped these PT tokens back for liquidity re-staking tokens (LRT).