EigenLayer’s new competitors — Symbiotic and Karak
Symbiotic and Karak are making waves in the Ethereum restaking market, competing with pioneer EigenLayer.

Symbiotic and Karak are making waves in the Ethereum restaking market, competing with pioneer EigenLayer.
Eigenlayer's main competitor, Symbiotic, just went live with a deposit limit of $200 million, and almost reached the limit in one day. Emerging trends can wait, but high-yield opportunities cannot.
With support from Lido and Paradigm, can Symbiotic break EigenLaeyr's monopoly?
EigenLayer innovatively proposed the Restaking mechanism, which not only optimized the use of funds, but also improved the scalability of the network while addressing the macro-security issue of trust division.
Driven by concepts such as AVS, re-staking, and points systems, a huge ecosystem has gradually formed. From the beginning of 2024 to now, EigenLayer's TVL has increased 12 times
With its mainnet launch now fully operational, it will be necessary to closely monitor whether EigenLayer brings the new DeFi Summer that some are looking forward to for Ethereum.
In this article, we will take you through the evolution of the EigenLayer protocol and describe how the EigenLayer architecture emerged from the initial concept.
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This article will give you a comprehensive explanation of this upstart project that Ethereum loves and hates - EigenLayer.
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