Liquid restaking with rswETH
Earn uncapped restaking rewards without locking your liquidity.
Get Pearls and Points
Pearls represent a claim to SWELL tokens, and Restaked Points measure your contribution to the shared security of the EigenLayer ecosystem.
Earn future restaking rewards
rswETH gives you uncapped access to EigenLayer, giving you unlimited access to future restaking rewards by contributing economic security to a range of different protocols.
Unlock the value of your restaked assets
Receive restaking rewards while also using your rswETH in DeFi.
How it works
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Deposit ETH
Deposit ETH in the Swell app under 'Restake'.
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Get rswETH
Receive freshly minted Restaked Swell Ether (rswETH).
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You get restaking yield
As a reward-bearing token, the price of rswETH rises as rewards from staking and restaking accrue.
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And, you can still use your rswETH in DeFi!
Retain control of your rswETH and utilize it in DeFi to earn additional yield.
Secured by industry leaders
rswETH is developed in collaboration with leading blockchain auditors and risk management firms.
Supported by the Liquid Restaking Council
Leading players in the emerging restaking ecosystem are supporting the development and delivery of rswETH.
Start earning restaking rewards by minting rswETH
FAQs
Restaked Swell Ether (rswETH) is a tokenized version of Ether restaked on EigenLayer. Technically speaking, rswETH is a native Liquid Restaking Token (LRT).
As a native LRT, rswETH deposits are uncapped.
Under the hood, the Swell DAO validators for rswETH are integrated directly with EigenLayer.
Read more about Native Restaking in the EigenLayer docs.
EigenLayer is a protocol built on Ethereum that introduces the new cryptoeconomic primitive of restaking. Restaking on EigenLayer enables stakers to earn additional rewards by securing multiple Actively Validated Services (AVSs), which are protocols that require distributed validation. This includes: oracles, bridges, sidechains, virtual machines, and other systems that need to bootstrap decentralized security in an efficient and effective way.
rswETH is reward-bearing, which means that it increases in price as staking and restaking rewards accrue.
This can be tracked through the ETH:rswETH exchange rate, which shows the relative value of total restaked ETH including rewards, vs the original amount of ETH that has been restaked.
For now, you will earn Pearls and EigenLayer Restaked Points.
- Pearls can be used to claim SWELL tokens at the token generation event (TGE), which is scheduled for late Q1, 2024.
- EigenLayer Restaked Points are a measure of your contribution to the shared security of the EigenLayer ecosystem.
When EigenLayer onboards Actively Validated Services (AVSs) to mainnet, restaking yields will flow to rswETH holders.
Yes, restaking with rswETH enables you to earn restaking rewards while also using rswETH in DeFi.
An estimation of your EigenLayer Restaked Points will be visible on the Swell app. Due to the way in which EigenLayer Points are calculated, this estimated number may diverge by up to a few percentage points from the actual figure.
There is no limit to the amount of ETH that can be natively restaked into EigenLayer with rswETH.
For the first 30 days following the launch, rswETH holders will pay zero fees. Then the fees will be 10% of staking rewards.
Yes, restaking with rswETH enables you to earn restaking rewards while also using your rswETH in DeFi. The first DeFi integrations will be available in the days following the launch.
There is no minimum pre-deposit requirement.
You can collect Pearls with rswETH in the same way as with swETH. That includes ongoing Pearls for holding rswETH and using it in DeFi, along with a bonus of 30 Pearls for each new minted rswETH.
No, you will not get rswETH by restaking swETH on EigenLayer.
To get rswETH, you need to restake through the Swell app, which deposits your ETH into a separate restaking pool.
Learn more about the difference between rswETH and restaking swETH in our blog: What is restaking?
Withdrawals are not yet live for rswETH. This will be enabled in the coming weeks.
Swaps are possible on the secondary market through the use of DEXs or DEX aggregators. Note that swaps may not be available in the hours immediately following the launch.
swETH and rswETH are complementary and serve different purposes.
In the future, we expect Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRTs) to gradually absorb Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs). As such, we will future versions of rswETH will enable swETH to be staked in exchange for rswETH.
Referrals will be made available for rswETH at a later date.
Although both swETH and rswETH could be expected to earn roughly the same number of EigenLayer points over long periods, there may be some short-term variance due to a difference in the way that native restaking is set up within EigenLayer.
While swETH restakers start earning Points immediately upon restaking, native restakers (rswETH holders) only start earning points when the validator has been registered on the beacon chain, which can take more than 18 hours. The loss of Point earnings during this period is spread across all holders, resulting in rswETH holders potentially earning slightly fewer Points compared to swETH restakers.