Company · Oct 15, 2026 · 6 min read
From Tortle Ninja to AutoLayer: the rebrand and V1 numbers
Why Tortle Ninja became AutoLayer, who is behind it, and what the team reported about V1 activity in its February-March 2024 Arbitrum grant application.
Liquid restaking · Arbitrum
All LRTfi.
One interface.
Restake into liquid restaking and liquid staking tokens with one click. AutoLayer routes the trade, bundles the steps and keeps your yield compounding.
- Live on Arbitrum
- Aug 2023
- Assets reachable
- ~800
- Embedded transactions
- 40,000+
Figures from AutoLayer's Arbitrum LTIPP application, February 2024.
One route, every layer
A single deposit. Every restaking protocol behind it.
Liquid restaking spreads across EigenLayer, LRT issuers and a dozen DEXs. AutoLayer puts them behind one interface, so you see one position instead of five dashboards.
How routing worksYou deposit
ETH · WETH · LSTAutoLayer router
Best route · one tx
You hold
LRT positions- EigenLayer
- Renzo Protocol
- Kelp DAO
- Uniswap
- Balancer
- ParaSwap
- Camelot
- GMX
Integrations listed in AutoLayer V1, February 2024.
Product
Built for people who restake more than once.
- 01
Intent-based routing
AutoLayer does not run its own swaps, mints or perps. An intent engine reads the liquidity available on Arbitrum and picks the route with the best price and gas cost.
- 02
One transaction, many steps
Strategies that would take several approvals and swaps are consolidated into a single transaction through the AutoLayer proxy contract.
- 03
Yields that keep compounding
Restaking rewards can be harvested, converted back to ETH and reinvested, so positions grow without manual claiming.
AutoLayer V2
An information layer for EigenLayer risk.
The published V2 roadmap adds data that restakers cannot easily get elsewhere, and automation that acts on it.
AVS scoring
A risk score for every Actively Validated Service, based on how much professional operators and the community have staked on it.
LRT scoring
Rehypothecation insight: how much of an LRT sits as collateral in money markets relative to its TVL.
Compounding and liquification
Vaults that auto-compound liquid rewards and wrap non-transferable points into tokens you can hold.
Slashing tests and bounties
A bounty contract that pauses validation of an AVS before a slashing event reaches stakers.
Security
Audited code. No security incidents reported.
The original contracts were audited by PeckShield under the Tortle Ninja name, and grant funds were held in an institutional-grade, physically secured multisig.
From the research desk
Research · Oct 15, 2026 · 6 min read
AVS scoring: professional operator TVL vs community TVL
How AutoLayer planned to rate each Actively Validated Service using two stake measures, and why the split between professional and retail backing is a useful risk signal.
Research · Oct 15, 2026 · 6 min read
LRT rehypothecation risk: looping, depegs and collateral vs TVL
How reusing liquid restaking tokens as collateral can amplify a depeg, and why comparing money-market collateral with TVL gives a simple rehypothecation signal.
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