Renzo is the restaking hub of Eigenlayer built to streamline and expand access to the most intelligent Liquid Restaking strategies. Powered by institutional-grade node operators, Renzo abstracts away the complexities of securing Actively Validated Services (AVS) while delivering a powerful interface for risk management and rewards tracking on Eigenlayer. With Renzo’s ezETH—the most integrated Liquid Restaking Token (LRT)—users can access broad exposure to the EigenLayer (and Ethereum) ecosystems with more opportunities to generate rewards. Learn more: https://www.renzoprotocol.com/

Renzo Protocol has rebranded to Renzo Finance, repositioning itself as a technology company building the tools, automation and infrastructure that advanced yield strategies run on. Its first new product is Renzo Basis, which lets anyone earn perp basis yield and keep it all, with fine-tuned control over their strategies and automated safeguards. The launch follows the earlier tease of a Renzo 2.0 yield product starting at 12%+ APY, which the protocol frames as a step up from the roughly 6% it cites as typical for new yield products.
Renzo bought back over 127.1 million REZ from the open market using protocol revenue and burned 90% of it, aiming to reduce total supply by at least 10%.
Renzo announced $17 million in funding across two rounds — the first led by Galaxy Ventures and the second by the Nova Fund–BH Digital (Brevan Howard) — to expand its restaking services, coming as nearly $4 billion was restaked with the protocol.
REZ began the decentralization of the protocol, with the Season 1 airdrop distributing tokens to eligible ezPoints holders (32% of supply allocated to the community); the token debuted around a $289 million market cap.
The seed round, valuing Renzo at $25 million, was led by Maven11 Capital with participation from Figment Capital, SevenX Ventures, IOSG Ventures, and other investors.
Renzo's beta mainnet went live, allowing users to deposit ETH and liquid staking tokens to access EigenLayer restaking rewards and points, attracting over $20 million in deposits from more than 2,000 users within its first weeks.
The three co-founded Renzo in July 2023 as a liquid restaking protocol built on EigenLayer, with Kozinski, Poole, and Lodha serving as founding contributors.
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