Organization Name – Byzantine Finance

Category – Banking & DeFi

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Byzantine Finance, based in Levallois-Perret outside Paris and launched in 2024, is building what it calls a restaking aggregation layer — infrastructure that lets any user, protocol, or DAO define a custom restaking strategy vault: pick the collateral asset, the target networks, the restaking protocols, and deploy a permissionless, risk-segregated product on top. The strategic logic is a classic aggregation play: restaking today is fragmented across EigenLayer-adjacent primitives, and whoever builds the layer that lets institutions customize and deploy strategies without hand-rolling… integrations against every underlying protocol captures the value that sits between the user and the fragmented supply.

COO Jonas Bokelmann is identity-verified in the VaaSBlock registry; CEO Gaia Ferrero Regis and CTO Alexandre Sanson are named but not independently verified. RMA™ status is Unverified across all seven pillars. VBTransparencyScore 5.22 at the 31.21st percentile, ranked 55th of 98 in Banking and DeFi. A $3 million pre-seed round led by Node Capital and Blockwall Ventures is a concrete, externally-verifiable financing signal — the kind of institutional backing an aggregation thesis needs to be credible at this stage, since customers won’t route capital through a permissionless-vault layer built by an unfunded team. X carries 2,960 certified followers, a modest but certified base consistent with early-stage B2B infrastructure rather than retail hype.

The aggregation thesis has a specific failure mode worth naming: an aggregation layer only captures value if it sits at the actual point of user friction, and restaking already has meaningful aggregators (EigenLayer’s own ecosystem, plus LRT-specific players). Byzantine’s bet is that permissionless, fully-customizable vault creation is different enough from existing LRT products to win institutional and DAO-level customers who need bespoke risk parameters rather than a one-size-fits-all product. No independent smart-contract audit is confirmed yet, and no revenue or usage metrics are logged as achievements.

The restaking aggregation layer risk and liquidity fragmentation question is the one that actually determines whether this works: every additional restaking layer stacked on top of a base asset multiplies the number of protocols whose failure could cascade. A vault isolation model reduces contagion between individual vaults, but it doesn’t reduce the aggregate systemic exposure sitting on top of whatever base assets are restaked through the layer. Read More