Modular source of security

At the moment OpenLayer users economic security coming from restaked assets, namely EigenLayer. Long term though, the economic security will also be modular.

OpenLayer will be on all the restaking protocols as well as allow direct staking of alternative assets, so a developer can choose what kind of security bucket they want, to security their own protocol. For example, a protocol built solely for operating and transferring EXAM token cross chains may want to source security based on EXAM token versus having their protocol secured by ETH for better value alignment and cost effectiveness.

The modular security design not only allows each project to define their own security tolerance, reduce cost and better align values, it also makes the entire ecosystem become potentially usable security and thus expanding the security pool.