Explanation of terms
Stakers / restakers
Users looking to stake or restake their assets.
Staking operator
Refers to those who run Ethereum validators in staking or native restaking vaults.
Restaking operator
Refers to those who run AVS / network nodes in restaking vaults. They operate the different restaking networks and receive delegated stake from vaults.
Curators
Refers to those who select and adjust a vault's strategy and settings. This can be (but doesn't have to be) the vault owner.
Native/integrated restaking
Staking and restaking of ETH in a single vault. Can be known both as native or integrated restaking. This documentation applies the term "native restaking".
Native vaults
Byzantine Vaults exposed to both staking and restaking. The deposit token has to be the native token of the chain used (ETH on Ethereum).
ERC20 restaking
In contrast to native restaking, ERC20 restaking means restaking any ERC20 asset, such as LSTs or even USDC. The AVS / networks individually decide which ERC20s they accept as stake.
ERC20 vaults
Byzantine Vaults only exposed to restaking. The collateral asset / deposit token can be any ERC20 token.
AVSs / networks
The different proof-of-stake networks looking for economic security from restaking protocols.
Strategy
A combination of AVSs and protocols that a particular strategy vault is restaking into.
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