restaking-explained

restaking-explained is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nirholas/three.ws. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,957 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to restaking, where already-staked crypto is used to help secure additional blockchain services. It also explains liquid restaking tokens, operators, rewards, and slashing—the loss of stake after certain failures or misconduct.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain restaking and EigenLayer, evaluate liquid restaking protocols, understand operator selection, and assess rewards and slashing exposure.
Why use it?
Restaking can add rewards but also adds new technical and financial risks beyond ordinary staking. The guide explains how those risks arise and how operators and services fit together.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to explain restaking and EigenLayer, evaluate liquid restaking protocols, understand operator selection, and assess rewards and slashing exposure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nirholas/three.ws/restaking-explained
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add nirholas/three.ws --skill restaking-explained
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nirholas/three.ws

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,957 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00063 $0.01957
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00979
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00391
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00196

Measured 8d ago against content hash f5322417ceab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

restaking-explained scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

data/skills/defi/restaking-explained/SKILL.md · 207 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 207 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Restaking Explained

Restaking is a new DeFi primitive that lets you use already-staked ETH to secure additional protocols. This guide covers the mechanics, risks, and ecosystem.

What Is Restaking?

Traditional Staking

You → Stake 32 ETH → Ethereum Validator → Earn ~3-4% APY
                                          (Securing Ethereum consensus)

Restaking

You → Stake ETH → Ethereum Validator → Earn ~3-4% APY (Ethereum)
                         ↓
                → Opt into EigenLayer → Earn +1-5% APY (AVS rewards)
                                        (Now also securing additional protocols)

Your staked ETH simultaneously secures Ethereum AND other protocols (called AVSes — Actively Validated Services). You earn rewards from both.

EigenLayer: The Restaking Protocol

How It Works

  1. Deposit: You deposit ETH, LSTs (stETH, rETH), or EIGEN tokens
  2. Delegate: You delegate to an operator (or run your own node)
  3. Operator enrolls in AVSes: The operator validates for additional protocols
  4. Earn rewards: You earn Ethereum staking + AVS rewards
  5. Slashing risk: If operator misbehaves, your stake can be slashed

Key Components

Component What It Is
Restaker You — the person depositing assets
Operator Runs validation software for AVSes
AVS (Actively Validated Service) Protocol that uses restaked ETH for security
EigenPod Smart contract managing your restaked position
EIGEN Token EigenLayer's governance/utility token

Accepted Assets

Asset Where to Get
ETH (native restaking) Direct deposit
stETH (Lido) Lido staking
rETH (Rocket Pool) Rocket Pool
cbETH (Coinbase) Coinbase
Various LSTs Various liquid staking protocols
EIGEN EigenLayer token

Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRTs)

LRTs are the DeFi layer on top of restaking — they give you a liquid token representing your restaked position.

Read the full file on GitHub · 207 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 207 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A f5322417ceab

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restaking-explained is a skill published in the GitHub repository nirholas/three.ws (114 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,957 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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