Renzo Staking is a liquid restaking protocol built for people who want their ETH or eligible liquid staking tokens to keep working without locking themselves into one narrow staking position. The simple version: you deposit a supported asset, receive ezETH, and keep a liquid token in your wallet while your position participates in layered reward sources.
Plain staking can feel like a trade-off. You want ETH staking exposure, but you may not want an illiquid position that sits apart from the rest of your DeFi activity. Liquid restaking tries to solve that with a liquid restaking token, or LRT.
This guide gives you the careful first pass: what you need, what happens during a deposit, how ezETH fits in, where rewards may come from, and which mistakes to avoid before signing.
Start with the basics. Most beginner mistakes happen before the deposit screen.
Renzo Staking mainly applies to ETH and supported LSTs. If an asset is not shown as eligible in the live app, treat it as unsupported.
Liquid restaking adds another layer on top of ETH staking. With normal ETH staking, ETH helps secure Ethereum through validators and earns ETH staking rewards. With restaking, staked ETH or eligible staking-derived assets can also be used through EigenLayer to help secure AVS, meaning actively validated services.
Renzo helps route supported deposits into restaking strategies and gives users ezETH, a liquid restaking token, in return. ezETH represents your restaked position and is designed to remain usable while the underlying position earns.
The reward stack can include base ETH staking rewards, restaking or AVS rewards through EigenLayer, and protocol points. Those rewards are variable. They can change based on validator performance, AVS participation, protocol decisions, market conditions, and live app rules.
Open the app and connect your wallet. MetaMask is a common choice, but the important part is that you control the wallet and review every transaction before signing.
Check the network before doing anything else. If your wallet is on the wrong network, you may not see the asset you expect, or you may prepare the wrong transaction. Also keep enough ETH for gas.