EigenLayer’s total value locked surpasses $10 billion
Quick Take
- The surge in EigenLayer’s total value locked (TVL) is attributed to continuous ether deposits and the rise in ether’s price.
- Assets deposited to EigenLayer have increased from $1.1 billion to $10 billion year-to-date.
The total value of assets deposited in EigenLayer has increased approximately tenfold from $1.1 billion year-to-date, reaching $10.4 billion at the time of writing — approximately 2.93 million ether. This positions EigenLayer as the third-largest DeFi protocol, following Lido and Aave.
Eigen’s TVL is slightly less than that of the lending protocol Aave, which is at $10.6 billion.
EigenLayer offers a protocol for users to deposit and “re-stake” ether from various liquid staking tokens, aiming to then allocate those funds to secure third-party networks.
Part of the reason for this surge is the continued ether deposits on Eigen (primarily via liquid restaking protocols) coupled with the increase in ether’s price. The protocol’s stage 1 launched on the Ethereum mainnet in June 2023. Within the next eight months, the protocol’s TVL had surged to over $6 billion in February.
Currently, only the native restaking with EigenPod is open.
Securing other protocols
The protocol’s strategy involves leveraging ETH’s economic security by accepting native ETH—which can be directly restaked by Ethereum validators—and liquid staked ETH, or liquid staking protocols. This mechanism (called restaking) can then be used to secure other protocols, though this feature is yet to go live.
EigenLabs closed a $50 million Series A funding round in March 2023 led by Blockchain Capital. Last month, Andreessen Horowitz led the Series B round, investing $100 million in EigenLayer.
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