$KERNEL is positioned as the next major rotation in DeFi and it’s not just price action, it’s flow.
Most of the market’s in pullback mode:
- ETH, SOL, and majors are range-bound or down.
- LRTs like EigenLayer are down 13–15%.
- Memes are retracing across the board.
But a few assets are doing something different.
$KERNEL is one of the only DeFi tokens posting a +7% move in this chop and it’s not hype-driven. It’s capital rotation.
Why? Look at what’s behind it:
- Kernel already has $2B+ in TVL across its ecosystem, that’s not speculative.
- It’s the
#1 restaking infra on BNB Chain, and
#2 LRT infra on Ethereum, real traction across chains.
- 25+ AVS/DVN integrations, 50+ protocols secured.
- 8 major exchange listings already live.
- About to go live with stablecoin vaults + RWA exposure, real yield, not narrative play.
What this tells me:
Big players are rotating into Kernel because it has distribution, product-market fit, and infra dominance on chains others aren’t even building on yet.
This isn’t “next EigenLayer”. It’s something different.
Kernel is expanding restaking to an entirely new surface area - BNB, RWA, infra apps. All secured by a shared base layer.
You’re not early to restaking anymore.
But you’re still early to the next restaking layer that scales beyond Ethereum.
If you missed EigenLayer at $100M TVL — this is your replay button.
https://kerneldao.com/restake/?utm_source=Mountains
