Liquid staking with Lido earns a clean, cash-flow-validated yield. Restaking with EigenLayer stacks a second layer of yield on top — and a second layer of slashing risk. EigenLayer once held ~93.9% of the restaking market and was called a potential redefinition of Ethereum's security model; its TVL has since fallen sharply as the market asks the plainest question of all — who's actually paying for this yield?