Overview

Before reading this, make sure to read What is Byzantine Finance?.

The Byzantine protocol is a suite of smart contracts that come together to form a highly composable restaking aggregation layer.

All our strategy vaults are ERC-4626 compatible. Stakers receive vault shares in return for their investment, which are themselves ERC-20 tokens.

Byzantine infrastructure includes key security technologies to make both restaking and staking more secure and efficient, especially in regard to native restaking. By protecting validators against slashing and inactivity penalties with Distributed Validator Technology (DVT), we extract the maximum possible rewards from their work. Additionally, our validation credits, priced via an auction mechanism, make sure that stakers are paid upfront and face no risk from lazy validators, and that validators never pay more than what they consider appropriate.

Protocol summary

For more, see Strategy vaults.