# eigen

Restaking is one of Ethereum’s most serious experiments because it tries to turn security into a reusable market.
$EIGEN captures exposure to the idea that staked capital can secure more than one system. That is powerful because every new middleware layer, oracle, bridge, AVS, and infrastructure service needs trust.
The market is also learning that restaking is not free yield. It introduces slashing assumptions, liquidity dependencies, correlated risk, and system complexity. But that makes the category more serious, not less important.
The strongest EIGEN thesis is that crypto security itself