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LRT issuers ranked on added slashing risk, transparency and exit liquidity. Every score below is the weighted mean of the rubric marks, not an editor's gut feel.
ether.fiBest for: The most liquid LRT with the best-documented stack7.9/10
EigenLayerBest for: The base restaking layer everything else builds on7.6/10
Puffer FinanceBest for: Anti-slashing technology and lower operator bonds7.6/10
SymbioticBest for: Restaking collateral beyond ETH7.3/10
Kelp DAOBest for: Restaking multiple LSTs from one position7.2/10
Swell rswETHBest for: Restaking from an established liquid staking operator7.1/10| # | Service | Score | Best for | Fees | Since |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ether.fiSolid | 7.9/10 | The most liquid LRT with the best-documented stack | ||
| 2 | EigenLayerSolid | 7.6/10 | The base restaking layer everything else builds on | ||
| 3 | Puffer FinanceSolid | 7.6/10 | Anti-slashing technology and lower operator bonds | ||
| 4 | SymbioticSolid | 7.3/10 | Restaking collateral beyond ETH | ||
| 5 | Kelp DAOSolid | 7.2/10 | Restaking multiple LSTs from one position | ||
| 6 | Swell rswETHSolid | 7.1/10 | Restaking from an established liquid staking operator | ||
| 7 |  Jito RestakingMixed | 6.9/10 | Restaking infrastructure from Solana's largest staking operator | ||
| 8 |  Mellow FinanceMixed | 6.8/10 | Choosing a curated restaking risk profile | ||
| 9 |  RenzoMixed | 6.6/10 | Multi-chain restaking exposure | ||
| 10 |  SolayerMixed | 6.5/10 | Restaking on Solana | ||
| 11 |  EigenpieMixed | 6.4/10 | Isolated per-LST restaking positions | ||
| 12 |  BedrockMixed | 6.3/10 | Multi-asset restaking including BTC-denominated products | ||
| 13 |  FragmetricMixed | 6.1/10 | Normalised restaking positions on Solana | ||
| 14 |  InceptionMixed | 6.1/10 | Isolated restaking vaults across several assets | ||
| 15 |  KarakMixed | 6.0/10 | Restaking a wide range of assets across chains |
The category leader by size and disclosure: users keep their withdrawal keys, and the documentation actually explains what the collateral secures.
The protocol that created the category: extensively audited, deliberately slow to enable slashing, and still proving the economics work.
The only protocol here whose central idea is preventing slashing rather than pricing it, sold at a below-market fee.
A permissionless restaking base layer with immutable core contracts — the most conservative engineering in a category that needed some.
Accepts stETH, ETHx and native ETH into one restaked position — convenient aggregation, one more layer of contracts.
Restaking run by a team that already operates a working LST, which shows in the operational discipline if not the liquidity.
A restaking framework from the team that already runs Solana's biggest LST — credible operators, unproven mechanism.
Modular vaults where a named curator picks the risk, which is honest about the fact that somebody always does.
Grew fastest, depegged hardest: the April 2024 ezETH dislocation is the clearest lesson in this category's exit risk.
The leading Solana restaking protocol, applying a model whose Ethereum version is itself still unproven.
Issues a separate token per underlying LST, which isolates risk cleanly and fragments liquidity completely.
Extends restaking beyond ETH into Bitcoin-denominated products, which is novel and adds an entirely new bridge risk.
A thoughtful Solana restaking design in its first year, which is not long enough to judge anything.
A small protocol doing the isolation-per-asset thing competently, with all the liquidity problems that implies.
Accepts almost any asset as restaking collateral across many chains, which is a lot of surface area for a young protocol.
Score = Σ (mark × weight), rounded to 0.1. A criterion with nothing published scores 0.
Restaking takes staked ETH and pledges it as security for additional services, each with its own slashing conditions. The extra yield is real; so is the extra way to lose principal. Our rubric therefore leads with added slashing risk — what your collateral is actually securing, and whether you were told.
This is the youngest category we rate and it scores lower on average than any other. That is deliberate. Most of these protocols have existed for two years or less, several launched with points programmes instead of published yields, and the slashing mechanics they depend on have not yet been tested at scale in production.
A large share of the returns advertised in this sector during the 2024 growth phase were points: unpriced claims on a future token. We do not score points programmes as yield, and we mark down protocols whose published returns depend on them without saying so.
Redemption from a restaking protocol can require unwinding operator commitments before the underlying stake unwinds, which is a queue behind a queue. In stress, that is when the secondary discount appears. We weight exit liquidity heavily for exactly this reason.
