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TradFi Meets DeFi: Publicly-Traded Flow Traders Comes Onchain Through Cap, EigenLayer and YieldNest

TradFi Meets DeFi: Publicly-Traded Flow Traders Comes Onchain Through Cap, EigenLayer and YieldNest

Stablecoin protocol Cap goes live as an EigenLayer Autonomous Verifiable Service (AVS), bringing institutional credit markets onchain with slashing, redistribution, and unique stake enabled, with YiledNest operating as a key EigenLayer delegate securing institutional activity on Cap. Flow Traders (Euronext: FLOW), one of the world's largest liquidity providers

DIN AVS Launches on EigenLayer: Bringing Economic Security to Web3's RPC Infrastructure

DIN AVS Launches on EigenLayer: Bringing Economic Security to Web3's RPC Infrastructure

Consensys-backed Decentralized Infrastructure Network (DIN) becomes first large-scale RPC marketplace to leverage EigenLayer's restaking and slashing

VIBEscore: Judged by AI. Verifiable by All.

VIBEscore: Judged by AI. Verifiable by All.

VIBEscore isn't just a game—it's a demonstration of what is possible with EigenCloud: web2 apps with crypto verifiability.

Introducing EigenCloud, A Developer Platform to Unlock Crypto's App Era

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Introducing EigenCloud, A Developer Platform to Unlock Crypto's App Era

EigenCloud brings verifiability-as a-service to every developer; a16z crypto has purchased $70M in EIGEN from the Eigen Foundation

EigenCloud: Cloud-Scale Programmability, Crypto-Grade Verifiability

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EigenCloud: Cloud-Scale Programmability, Crypto-Grade Verifiability

Crypto solved scalability but programmability remains the bottleneck. EigenCloud combines cloud-scale programmability with crypto-grade verifiability, enabling sophisticated apps impossible with today's smart contracts.

Redistribution is Live on Testnet

Redistribution is Live on Testnet

Redistribution is Live on Testnet Eigen Labs is pleased to announce the Redistribution feature is now available on Holesky, Sepolia, and Hoodi Testnets. AVSs will be able to repurpose and distribute slashed funds instead of burning them. This change expands the expressivity of slashing on EigenLayer, opening up new use

Ava Protocol: Enabling Verifiable Execution for Agent-Driven Workflows

Ava Protocol: Enabling Verifiable Execution for Agent-Driven Workflows

Ava Protocol eliminates the need for custom bots and fragile offchain infrastructure. Built on EigenLayer, it validates agent decisions and executes them onchain through a decentralized network—letting developers focus on logic while Ava handles the rest.

AVS Archetypes: Unlocking Task & Epoch-based Patterns for Scalable Decentralized Services

AVS Archetypes: Unlocking Task & Epoch-based Patterns for Scalable Decentralized Services

An “AVS archetype” is a design pattern for building AVSs on EigenLayer that defines how work is generated, tracked, and settled - helping developers quickly conceptualize and implement their AVS designs.

The Next Evolution in Slashing: Redistribution Coming to EigenLayer

The Next Evolution in Slashing: Redistribution Coming to EigenLayer

Redistribution is coming to EigenLayer. Soon, AVSs can repurpose slashed funds instead of burning them, unlocking new possibilities for verifiable services. This opt-in upgrade creates more expressive slashing mechanics with better incentives for all participants.

Slashing Goes Live on Mainnet: Powering a New Era of Verifiable Applications with Economic Enforcement

Slashing Goes Live on Mainnet: Powering a New Era of Verifiable Applications with Economic Enforcement

EigenLayer advances to feature-complete protocol with major partners, Infura and LayerZero, as flagship AVSs integrating slashing

AVS Spotlight: Infura's DIN - Leveraging EigenLayer's Slashing for Decentralized Infrastructure

AVS Spotlight: Infura's DIN - Leveraging EigenLayer's Slashing for Decentralized Infrastructure

Infura's DIN harnesses EigenLayer's slashing to create blockchain infrastructure with real economic stakes. Providers back their promises with staked ETH, creating the first marketplace where reliability failures have financial consequences—bringing trustless security to web3's connection points.

Slashing on Mainnet is Coming Soon - What You Need to Know

Slashing on Mainnet is Coming Soon - What You Need to Know

Slashing goes live on EigenLayer mainnet April 17th. Get essential details on what slashing is, the implementation timeline, key reminders for all users, and specific guidance for AVSs, Operators, and Stakers in this comprehensive update.

The Future of EigenLayer Testing: New & Improved Testnets & Tooling Coming Soon

The Future of EigenLayer Testing: New & Improved Testnets & Tooling Coming Soon

Eigen Labs expands EigenLayer protocol testing capabilities with multiple new testnets and developer tools. Explore Hoodi deployment, improved CLI, Self Slasher AVS, and local devnet toolchains—empowering AVS builders with robust, versatile environments for seamless integration.

AI Beyond the Black Box: Inference Labs is Making Verifiable, Decentralized AI a Reality with EigenLayer

AI Beyond the Black Box: Inference Labs is Making Verifiable, Decentralized AI a Reality with EigenLayer

Inference Labs is making AI verifiable on-chain with their Zero-Knowledge Verified Inference Network. By leveraging EigenLayer's security, they've created a system that makes dishonest behavior unprofitable while reducing proving times by 76%.

EigenLayer Update: Holesky Network Instability and Upcoming Sepolia Support

EigenLayer Update: Holesky Network Instability and Upcoming Sepolia Support

Due to Holesky testnet instability following Ethereum's Pectra Upgrade, EigenLayer will launch on Sepolia Network (March 10) while maintaining Holesky support. EigenDA targeting Sepolia availability by late April.

The Trust Layer for AI Agents: How Ungate Wukong Leverages EigenLayer for Trust-Minimized Autonomous Agents

The Trust Layer for AI Agents: How Ungate Wukong Leverages EigenLayer for Trust-Minimized Autonomous Agents

What if you could know with certainty that an AI is acting independently? Ungate and EigenLayer build the trust layer for AI, where autonomous agents don't just claim independence—they prove it cryptographically through verifiable execution.

Redefining AVS: From Actively Validated to Autonomous Verifiable Services

Redefining AVS: From Actively Validated to Autonomous Verifiable Services

EigenLayer redefines AVS as Autonomous Verifiable Services, reflecting a powerful shift from how these services are validated to what they truly represent: systems that are self-sustaining, verifiable, and built for decentralized ecosystems.

Scaling to $1B in Delegated Assets: How Pier Two Unlocked Growth with EigenLayer

Scaling to $1B in Delegated Assets: How Pier Two Unlocked Growth with EigenLayer

From early launch partner to securing over $1B in delegated ETH and EIGEN, Pier Two's success demonstrates how institutional operators can scale efficiently with EigenLayer's restaking framework to build market-leading positions.

EigenLayer at ETHDenver 2025: Complete Event Guide

EigenLayer at ETHDenver 2025: Complete Event Guide

Your comprehensive guide to all things Eigen at ETHDenver 2025

Introducing Verifiable Agents on EigenLayer

Introducing Verifiable Agents on EigenLayer

The “Level 1 Agent” is a standardized way for agents to integrate with verifiable tools by using AVSs.

EigenLayer 2024 Year in Review: Building the Future of Open Innovation

EigenLayer 2024 Year in Review: Building the Future of Open Innovation

2024 was a monumental year for EigenLayer. Since launching our first staking contracts in June 2023, and following the full mainnet deployment of the EigenLayer protocol in April 2024, we’ve made great strides toward our vision of building coordination engines for driving open innovation. We launched the EigenLayer protocol,

Introducing: Slashing

Introducing: Slashing

We are excited to introduce Slashing, a proposed protocol upgrade detailed in ELIP-002: Slashing, and the next significant step in the evolution of the EigenLayer protocol. This powerful upgrade introduces slashing, a critical tool for AVSs to enforce cryptoeconomic commitments. This proposed upgrade is the second EigenLayer Improvement Proposal (ELIP)

Introducing: Rewards v2

Introducing: Rewards v2

We are excited to announce the arrival of the Rewards v2 protocol upgrade on Mainnet. It is designed to bring greater flexibility, efficiency, and customization to rewards within the EigenLayer ecosystem. This upgrade is also the first EigenLayer Improvement Proposal (ELIP), ELIP-001: Rewards v2, using the EigenLayer Governance process (EigenGov)

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: