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Fragmentation to Fusion: Intention is All You Need (Part 2)

Fragmentation to Fusion: Intention is All You Need (Part 2)

Thanks to Kevin from Khalani, Hart and Nick from Across, Khushi from Predicate, Jon from Hyperlane, Soubhik, and Brandon for reviewing drafts of this piece. Intents hold the potential to transform how we interact with Ethereum, yet today, they risk creating fragmented “walled gardens” where each intent-based application exists in

Intention is All You Need

Intention is All You Need

Thanks to Kevin from Khalani, Hart and Nick from Across, Khushi from Predicate, Jon from Hyperlane, Soubhik, and Brandon for reviewing drafts of this piece. Intents are transforming how we think about interactions on Ethereum. Instead of rigid transaction paths, intents open up a world where users declare their desired

EigenLayer x LayerZero: The CryptoEconomic DVN Framework

EigenLayer x LayerZero: The CryptoEconomic DVN Framework

Eigen Labs, in partnership with LayerZero Labs, is introducing a framework for CryptoEconomic Decentralized Verifier Networks (DVNs). Eigen Labs chose LayerZero because it is one of the most battle-tested protocols in crypto, handling millions of messages and securing billions for apps. As the first step of this integration, we are

Celebrating Commit-Boost’s Journey Towards Mainnet

Celebrating Commit-Boost’s Journey Towards Mainnet

Eigen Labs is excited to announce that Commit-Boost, an open-source public good that we have proudly supported since its inception, is moving towards audit and production on the Ethereum mainnet. This milestone, and the community now behind it, marks a significant step forward in ensuring the healthy growth of the

Intelligent DeFi

Intelligent DeFi

Thanks to Karthik, Ismael from Lagrange, Nikhil from Aethos, Soubhik, Gautham, and Brandon for reviewing drafts of this piece. Ethereum gave birth to DeFi with the launch of Maker in December 2017. Uniswap and Compound launched soon after, forming an economy around ETH and ERC20s. Since then, we’ve witnessed

Introducing Programmatic Incentives v1

Introducing Programmatic Incentives v1

The Eigen Foundation is excited to announce the upcoming Programmatic Incentives v1 release, a new EigenLayer protocol feature, providing programmatic EIGEN rewards to stakers and operators for their active participation in supporting AVSs. What Programmatic Incentives v1 will enable weekly programmatic rewards of newly-minted EIGEN tokens to qualifying stakers and

Introducing the EigenLayer Security Model: A Novel Approach to Operating and Securing Decentralized Services

Introducing the EigenLayer Security Model: A Novel Approach to Operating and Securing Decentralized Services

Eigen Labs is excited to introduce the EigenLayer Security Model, an evolution of our previous model, in preparation for the upcoming ‘Slashing’ protocol feature release. This blog post is a simple description of how EigenLayer empowers AVSs to operate more efficiently and create economically aligned incentives using three foundational concepts:

Introducing the EigenPod Upgrade

Introducing the EigenPod Upgrade

Eigen Labs is pleased to announce the EigenPod upgrade, a major update to the EigenLayer protocol, making native ETH restaking on EigenLayer easier and more rewarding. What The EigenPod upgrade introduces a novel balance checkpointing system for managing Ethereum validator and EigenPod balances. When All EigenPods on mainnet have been

Introducing Updated EigenDA Pricing: Unlocking Greater Value and Accessibility

Introducing Updated EigenDA Pricing: Unlocking Greater Value and Accessibility

EigenDA’s mission is to scale the decentralized world by making reliable, scalable, and secure data availability (‘DA’) abundant. In pursuit of this goal, and enabled by the scalability of its design, EigenDA strives to be the most price-performant DA solution. Today, we are pleased to announce a 10x reduction

Community Update: Airdrops and the EigenLayer Ecosystem Network

Community Update: Airdrops and the EigenLayer Ecosystem Network

CoinDesk published an article on airdrops in our ecosystem and Eigen Labs employee participation in those airdrops. We’ve written a community update on what happened, why it happened, and steps we’ve taken. We want to make clear that we have no knowledge or evidence of any employee at

Coming Soon: Permissionless Token Support on EigenLayer

Coming Soon: Permissionless Token Support on EigenLayer

Eigen Labs is proud to introduce Permissionless Token Support, an upcoming update, to the EigenLayer protocol. This feature will enable any ERC-20 token to be permissionlessly added as a restakable asset, significantly broadening the scope of assets that can contribute to the security of decentralized networks, and unlocking the cryptoeconomic

Introducing EigenDA Base Rewards

Introducing EigenDA Base Rewards

Last week EigenLayer experienced a major upgrade. The Rewards protocol, the onchain system that enables AVSs to distribute rewards to their stakers and operators, went live on mainnet on August 6th. The Rewards protocol upgrade grants AVSs the ability to begin rewarding stakers and operators for their past, present, and

Principles and Best Practices to Design Solidity Events in Ethereum and EVM

Principles and Best Practices to Design Solidity Events in Ethereum and EVM

Solidity events are a crucial feature of Ethereum and EVM blockchains, with a vast number of use cases within the ecosystem. Primary use cases, for example, include but not limited to * Logging: where events provide a mechanism to log critical actions and state changes inside smart contract, for track contract

Coming Soon: AVS Rewards and EIGEN Programmatic Incentives

Coming Soon: AVS Rewards and EIGEN Programmatic Incentives

Summary * Actively Validated Services (AVSs) are gaining the ability to reward stakers and operators. * At least 4% of EIGEN's total supply will be distributed to stakers and operators via upcoming programmatic incentives. * These incentives will be distributed via "rewards-boosts" in which stakers and operators will receive

Request for AVS: Uniswap v4 Hooks

Request for AVS: Uniswap v4 Hooks

Occasionally, you hear an idea so exciting that you see the future with utter clarity. At Eigen Labs, we’re excited to work with exceptional builders and hear their special insights about the world on a daily basis. We want to share some of ours with you. We’re starting

Holesky Launch: AVSs Can Now Test Restaker and Operator Rewards

Holesky Launch: AVSs Can Now Test Restaker and Operator Rewards

We're proud to announce the launch of the MVP experience for Rewards on the Holesky testnet. This MVP allows AVSs to begin integrating with the rewards system, and test setting up incentives for restakers and node operators. It also allows restakers to test claiming functionality for (worthless) testnet

EigenDA Dual Quorum and Production Traffic Announcement

EigenDA Dual Quorum and Production Traffic Announcement

We are supporting rollup production traffic on EigenDA mainnet available immediately. Anyone can now deploy their rollup and be whitelisted on our free tier. Interested rollup customers should fill out the EigenDA Contact Form in order to be approved for the initial free-tier usage phase. Please provide the ETH address

Onboarding Rollups to EigenDA

Onboarding Rollups to EigenDA

Following the EigenDA mainnet launch announcement on April 9, we are pleased to announce that rollups can now onboard onto EigenDA mainnet for test traffic. We have been working hard in sync with our community of restakers and DA operators to achieve our system performance goals in order to enable

EIGEN: The Universal Intersubjective Work Token

EIGEN: The Universal Intersubjective Work Token

Over the past few years, we at Eigen Labs have been developing a platform for advancing the concept of open, verifiable digital commons. This blog post summarizes the intersubjective forking protocol enabled by the EIGEN token. We will break down the significance of EIGEN, its core ideas, its high-level implementation,

Accelerate Rollup Deployment with EigenDA's RaaS Marketplace

Accelerate Rollup Deployment with EigenDA's RaaS Marketplace

Teams are launching high performance, low cost rollups and rollup services on EigenDA. In this post we’ll take a look at some of them and learn how you can get started building your own rollup. Rollups as a Service (RaaS) provide everything you need to build, customize, and deploy

Unpausing Restaking Deposits on April 16th!

Unpausing Restaking Deposits on April 16th!

We're excited to announce the culmination of our phased rollout with the removal of all Liquid Staking Token (LST) caps and unpausing deposits, effective April 16th, 2024, at 9:00 AM PST. This milestone marks the next chapter in EigenLayer's journey, fostering a wide-open and dynamic

EigenLayer AVS Mainnet Launch

EigenLayer AVS Mainnet Launch

EigenLayer Mainnet Launch Expands Ecosystem with Additional AVSs The EigenLayer ecosystem takes another leap forward with the launch of Stage 3 on mainnet! Following the launch of EigenDA as the first AVS on EigenLayer, this stage introduces a powerful group of AVSs – AltLayer’s MACH restaked rollups with Xterio being

Mainnet Launch Announcement: EigenLayer ∞ EigenDA

Mainnet Launch Announcement: EigenLayer ∞ EigenDA

The Start of Infinite Sum Games Not long ago, EigenLayer was just an idea. Restaking launched on Ethereum mainnet in June 2023. In the ensuing months, we’ve been deeply inspired by the crypto community’s enthusiasm for the EigenLayer vision. Today, over 4.1 million ETH are restaked on

Fhenix: FHE Coprocessor on EigenLayer

Fhenix: FHE Coprocessor on EigenLayer

Fhenix and EigenLayer Join Forces to Pioneer FHE Coprocessors, Revolutionizing Onchain Confidentiality on Ethereum We are excited that FHE Coprocessor will be building on EigenLayer and to announce the development of FHE-based coprocessors in collaboration with Fhenix. FHE coprocessors are secured by Fhenix’s optimistic FHE rollup infrastructure and EigenLayer’

EigenLayer Holesky Testnet Launch + Dual Quorum Support for EigenDA

EigenLayer Holesky Testnet Launch + Dual Quorum Support for EigenDA

The EigenLayer and EigenDA Holesky Testnet is now up and running. This marks an important milestone for the EigenLayer ecosystem, and we're keen for operators, stakers and rollup developers to continue testing on Holesky as we gear up for the upcoming mainnet launch. As a reminder: points are