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 @EmberCN, StakeWise executed a contract call to reclaim 5,041 osETH worth about $19.3M from the Balancer exploiter, reducing the stolen tally from $117M to $98M, source: https://x.com/EmberCN/status/1985566230502420678. The exploiter has been swapping LST holdings into ETH and now holds more than half of the stolen assets in ETH, sources: https://x.com/EmberCN/status/1985566230502420678 and https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/entity/a1143094-5699-4e4a-a5ae-bca37094202c. Traders can monitor the listed address set for further ETH flows to assess potential order-book impact, source: https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/entity/a1143094-5699-4e4a-a5ae-bca37094202c.

According to TΞtranodΞ, the narrative of Ethereum as a Store of Value (SoV) is deemed more critical for attracting capital to Ethereum than focusing on yield by inflating supply for Liquid Staking Tokens (LST). TΞtranodΞ argues that with an effective annual inflation rate of 2%, Ethereum's performance is not significantly better than the US dollar, which could affect trading strategies focused on Ethereum's yield potential.