Symbiotic: Scaling Shared Security Through Restaking

Bootstrapping and maintaining a validator set can be a challenging endeavour, especially for projects that are in search of a product market fit. However, this does not mean one should abandon the ethos of decentralisation in favour of a more streamlined centralised approach. The notion of shared security had been previously explored in the Cosmos ecosystem, but Symbiotic takes it a step further, making it readily available for any project, regardless of its native blockchain, through restaking. Symbiotic is a modular coordination layer that sources node operators and economic security in a maximally capital-efficient manner.

Topics:

• Misha’s background
• Symbiotic’s origin story
• How Symbiotic tackles decentralisation
• The role of restaking in proof-of-stake models
• The economics of restaking
• The architecture of Symbiotic
• Liquid restaking tokens (LRT)
• Expanding restaking beyond Ethereum
• Slashing
• Symbiotic smart contract immutability and future updates
• Ecosystem development

Links:

• Symbiotic on Twitter