Bitcoin restaking and Ethereum restaking sound similar. But Babylon and EigenLayer are actually building two very different security models.

EigenLayer builds around Ethereum's existing economic security. $ETH that is already staked can be restaked to help secure additional services, allowing Ethereum's validator economy to support more infrastructure without every new protocol having to bootstrap security from scratch.

Babylon approaches the problem from a different direction.

Instead of extending Ethereum's staking economy, Babylon @BabylonLabs_io uses Bitcoin's economic weight as the foundation for Bitcoin staking. BTC holders can participate in securing Proof-of-Stake ecosystems while keeping their Bitcoin native to the Bitcoin network.

The difference is fascinating.

EigenLayer's strength is composability: one Ethereum staking ecosystem can support an expanding range of services.

Babylon's strength is Bitcoin's scale and economic credibility: an enormous pool of BTC becomes potentially useful beyond simply being held.

So which model has the bigger long-term potential: extending Ethereum's security, or bringing Bitcoin's economic weight into the wider crypto economy?

Meanwhile, both $BABY and $GIGGLE had a wild run on their charts this weekend. Hope you traded at least one of them on Binance like I did?

#baby @BabylonLabs_io