Ethereum restaking protocol EigenLayer noticed inflows of roughly $157 million in Lido’s staked ETH over the last 24 hours, marking the digital asset’s highest influx on the platform since February.
Notably, this vital influx into EigenLayer comes at a time when Lido’s share of the Ethereum staking market has dropped under 30% as a consequence of outflows into restaking protocols.
LST cap removing
On April 16, EigenLayer introduced the removing of caps on all ETH liquid staking tokens (LST) and unpaused restaking deposits.
The removing of LST caps signifies a pivotal part for EigenLayer’s ecosystem because it strives to foster an open marketplace for innovation and grants customers unrestricted entry to all LST swimming pools on its platform. Beforehand, EigenLayer had imposed caps to bolster decentralization and mitigate the chance of dominance by any single token.
These caps have been intermittently lifted over the previous yr earlier than the current mainnet launch. Nevertheless, the choice to take away caps is accompanied by a governance participation restrict of 33% for any liquid-staked token to uphold neutrality and decentralization.
Regardless of current market volatility, EigenLayer stays the dominant protocol throughout the restaking sector, controlling 99% of the market. Information from DeFillama exhibits that there are at the moment roughly 4 million ETH on the platforms, price greater than $12.2 billion.
Restaking eats into Lido’s dominance
A Dune Analytics dashboard curated by Dragonfly analyst Hildobby reveals that Lido skilled the biggest outflow amongst staking platforms prior to now month, totaling almost 400,000 ETH, lowering its market share to twenty-eight.87%.
Throughout the identical interval, liquid restaking protocols Ether.fi and Renzo attracted greater than 700,000 ETH to their platforms.
Market observers defined that Lido’s market share decline was because of the heightened competitors throughout the liquid staking panorama. Ethereum educator Anthony Sassano mentioned:
“One of the simplest ways to cease Lido from rising and scale back its market share is to extend competitors within the staking house, which we now have now accomplished! The Ethereum staking ecosystem has by no means been more healthy and I’m trying ahead to seeing an much more decentralized staking ecosystem as time goes on.”
