Symbiotic
Research
Announcements, product updates and research from the team building collateral markets.
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The Race to Make Tokenized Assets Liquid: How to Choose the Right Instant Liquidity Solution for RWAs
Three models have emerged to give tokenized real-world assets an instant exit. What separates them is who holds the capital behind that exit, how efficiently that capital works, and how far it scales across assets.
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OpenMind x Symbiotic: Restaking the Future of Autonomous Robotics
One bottleneck remains that cannot be simply solved by shifting capital or scaling data collection: trust. The same trust gap that exists in AI widens when robots operate in the real world.
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Collateral Contagion: Modeling Cascading Slashing Across Restaked Networks
This research investigates how slashing events in restaked ecosystems can propagate across networks due to shared validator sets, shared LRT portfolios, and overlapping slashing conditions.
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Slashing Insurance Vaults: A New Primitive for Onchain Risk
While slashing events are rare, their impact can be devastating and disproportionately affect smaller participants. Re² and Symbiotic propose a new solution: Slashing Insurance Vaults (SIVs).
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Universal Staking: Building Insurance with Symbiotic Primitives
Context Insurance is one of the oldest financial tools in history, but has seen only limited adoption in the crypto ecosystem. Notable examples include Nexus Mutual and Chainproof. We are now entering a phase where traditional finance is increasingly moving onchain. At the same time, more sophisticated infrastructure is enabling new financial use cases, such as identity or reputation-based undercollateralized lending. In parallel, the rise of restaking has introduced new primitives for build
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Economic Security for Guarantees
By extending the concept of shared security beyond traditional proof-of-stake consensus, Symbiotic creates a flexible coordination layer where staked assets can underwrite a wide range of use cases.
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Modeling Target Stake Requirements in Proof-of-Stake and Restaking-Based Networks
Abstract This research in collaboration with TokenSight explores how networks can estimate the amount of stake (or collateral) required to operate securely under Proof-of-Stake or restaking-based models. It introduces a framework for calculating “target stake” based on variables such as total value at risk, attack profitability, validator behavior, and slashing conditions. It also accounts for added complexities introduced by restaking, including collateral reuse and cross-network risk, and pro