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How will LST innovation affect restaking systemic risk?
LST innovation is a double-edged sword for systemic risk. New designs offering higher yields or better composability can attract more capital, deepening the ecosystem's liquidity. However, innovations like recursive lending or complex LST-backed derivatives embed higher degrees of financial leverage and interconnectedness. This creates a denser web of dependencies. A failure in one innovative LST or its supporting protocol could trigger liquidations that ripple through the entire restaking system much faster and more severely than in a simpler ecosystem. Therefore, while innovation drives growth, it also increases the network's complexity and potential for tightly-coupled failures, elevating systemic risk even as it improves capital efficiency for individuals.
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