The Liquidity Coordination Layer for Multichain Restaking

DeFi continues to mature, but one persistent inefficiency remains: fragmented liquidity. Most blockchain networks operate in isolation, with staking, yield farming, and lending systems confined to their own environments. This leads to poor capital deployment and limited earning potential. Helix Labs was built to address this.

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Helix acts as a multichain coordination layer for restaking (and in some instances, staking) activity across Layer 1 (L1) ecosystems. It operates in sync with EigenFi, the Labs's liquidity engine, to ensure staked assets are productive across DeFi and Actively Validated Services (AVS).

Understanding Restaking and Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRTs)

Restaking is a mechanism that allows staked assets to be used to secure additional services or protocols, thereby earning extra rewards. In the context of EigenLayer, a protocol built on Ethereum, restaking enables users to repurpose their staked ETH or Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) to provide security for Actively Validated Services (AVSs).
Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRTs) are tokens that represent these restaked positions. They provide liquidity to otherwise locked assets, allowing them to be used in various DeFi applications such as lending, borrowing, and trading.

Helix Labs’ Role in Coordinating Liquidity

Helix Labs functions as the coordination layer for cross-chain liquidity, ensuring that restaked assets remain efficient and liquid restaked assets are composable across different blockchain networks. It provides a unified framework for restaking, and DeFi participation, optimizing capital allocation to areas where it can be most effective.
By integrating with EigenFi, the liquidity engine within Helix, staked assets are tokenized as LRTs. These LRTs can then be utilized in various DeFi applications, allowing users to earn additional yields while maintaining their original staking rewards. Helix coordinates the flow of these assets to ensure optimal capital utilization across chains.

Integration with DeFi and Restaking Models

Helix Labs's integration with DeFi ecosystems enhances the utility of LRTs. These tokens can be used as collateral in lending and borrowing markets, deployed in liquidity pools and automated market makers (AMMs), and utilized in yield optimization strategies. This integration ensures that restaked assets are not only secure but also actively contributing to the broader DeFi ecosystem.

Economic Impact and Security Model

Helix ensures that liquidity distribution remains secure, decentralized, and economically sustainable. By supporting multi-asset restaking, it enhances the security models of AVSs. The Labs incorporates slashing and governance mechanisms to prevent validator misbehavior and employs capital allocation strategies to direct liquidity efficiently.

Products and Solutions

Helix Vault

Native liquid staking and restaking vaults across multiple L1 ecosystems. These vaults allow users to deposit native tokens directly and receive liquid representations that can be restaked and used in DeFi protocols.

EigenFi Restaking Network

An interconnected multichain gateway that allows liquid staking tokens to be restaked into EigenLayer from any chain and have those representative LRTs to be minted onto any chain. This opens up participation in Actively Validated Services, providing them a more diverse set of economic security.

Helix AVS Operator Node

A validator framework that deploys multichain restaked assets to support AVSs. The Helix AVS Operator Node acts as a conduit that brings unified economic security to decentralized services, powered by distributed restaked capital.

Benefits and Impact

Enhancing Multi-Chain Utility

Helix turns passive assets across networks into productive contributors to security and capital flow. This creates a more active and interconnected DeFi layer for all participants.

Scaling Shared Security Beyond Ethereum

While EigenLayer began with Ethereum, Helix extends shared security models across multiple ecosystems. L1s that previously had idle staking capacity can now secure a wider network of decentralized applications and services.

Liquidity as a Service

Helix helps new or emerging blockchain ecosystems bootstrap adoption by routing restaked liquidity into their networks. This can accelerate user onboarding and improve capital availability from day one.

What’s Next: Testnet Highlights and Forward Momentum

We recently concluded our incentivized testnet on the Movement Bardock Testnet. The goal was to validate multichain restaking flows, vault mechanics, and user interaction through a unified interface. Here’s what was achieved:
  • 750,000+ transactions were recorded during the testnet period.
  • 22,000+ users interacted with Helix Vaults, testing native liquid staking and restaking.
  • 47,000+ participants joined the campaign via Galxe, contributing to wide community reach.
  • 50,000 hstMOVE tokens were distributed to users who staked during the testnet.
  • All user activity flowed through a single frontend, while underlying mechanics were distributed across multiple EigenFi deployments.
  • Participation came from across regions, with strong representation from Asia, Europe, and North America.
The testnet provided critical insights into scaling restaking infrastructure and reinforced demand for multichain staking solutions.
With mainnet development underway and more integrations on the horizon, Helix Labs will continue expanding its validator network, ecosystem partnerships, and AVS coverage. The next phase will build on this early traction and shape how shared economic security evolves across blockchain networks.
With EigenFi managing token flows and AVS connections, Helix directs value where it matters. This approach provides infrastructure for a restaking economy that is more connected, transparent, and economically efficient.

About Helix Labs

Helix Labs is building the infrastructure to unlock alternative asset liquidity through permissionless, multichain liquid restaking. At the heart of this is the EigenFi Protocol, which enables utility-driven yield for LSTs beyond Ethereum. Through the EigenFi Restaking Network, users can natively restake their LSTs into EigenLayer from any supported chain and mint Liquid Restaked Tokens (LRTs) across chains. This unlocks new capital efficiency and access to multichain DeFi yield opportunities.