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Delegate

The process of Delegating assets is the same for both liquid and native restaked assets. The user's Restaking wallet must Delegate all restaked assets to a single Operator. After the initial Delegate operation - any subsequent Deposited (Restaked) assets are also automatically delegated to the current operator.

Delegate Assets​

  1. Invoke DelegationManager.delegateTo(). Please observe the following notes on the parameters: a. operator: the address of the operator you want to delegate to. b. approverSignatureAndExpiry: can be left blank. c. approverSalt: can be left blank.
  2. Your Restaked assets are now delegated.
note

For a given asset, if the Operator has been slashed 100% for that Strategy, then no new Stakers can delegate to the Operator if they hold this Strategy asset. This was designed to avoid smart contract division by zero (0) errors.

Change Actively Delegated Operator​

The following steps are necessary for a Restaker to move their Delegated balance to a New Operator. The process below requires users to perform each of the following steps in order:

  • Undelegate assets, which
  • Redeposit each asset.
  • Delegate to the new Operator.
  1. Undelegate: invoke DelegationManager.undelegate().
    • Note: this action automatically queues a withdrawal for all restaked assets. The Undelegate and Queue Withdrawal transactions are intentionally combined due to the security architecture of EigenLayer smart contracts.
  2. Wait for the Escrow Period to complete.
  3. Invoke DelegationManager.completeQueuedWithdrawal(). Important: you will choose to complete the withdrawal as shares, which is effectively a redeposit action.
    • receiveAsTokens should be set to false.
  4. Invoke DelegationManager.delegateTo() to delegate your restaked assets to the new Operator.