EigenLayer's Vision for Ethereum's Future
EigenLayer's Vision for Ethereum's Future
🚀 Ethereum's New Home
EigenLayer positions Ethereum as the foundation for multiple key innovations:
- Core Components: EIGEN, Restaking, and EigenDA form the backbone
- Verifiable Cloud: Platform enabling trust-based applications
- Security Extension: Provides Ethereum-level security for various applications
- Current Status: ~4.58M ETH locked (4% of total supply)
- Infrastructure: Supporting 190+ AVSs with 100 MB/s throughput
- Value Proposition: $20B in liquidity on EigenLayer
The platform aims to make Ethereum the home for verifiable compute and trust-based applications beyond traditional finance. Developers can build cloud-scale applications while maintaining crypto-grade verification.
Ethereum is: Home of EIGEN Home of Restaking Home of @eigen_da Home of the Verifiable Cloud Home for Trust Beyond Finance Home for apps that need Ethereum security Home for the next gen of Verifiable Compute
Ethereum is: Home of DeFi Home of Stablecoins (which are eating the world) Home of Real-World Assets coming onchain Home for the Next Generation of Internet Businesses Home for People who can’t access TradFi Ethereum is the trust layer for global finance Ethereum is
"EigenCloud will change crypto and the internet forever." ~ @FinalityCap Full thread ↓
Lots of takes on @EigenLayer’s new product: EigenCloud. Here’s another: it will change crypto and the Internet forever. Regulatory tailwinds are big. This is bigger. 🧵👇
20+ updates lit up the verifiable stack this week: ☑️ EigenCloud officially unveiled ☁️ ☑️ Earnifi wins Best Financial Services App ☑️ ZK infra gets the 101 it deserved ☑️ Wellness rewards made provable with onchain randomness ☑️ EigenCloud paper decoded ☑️ Stablecoins
gEigen! We hope you've had an amazing week and might have missed out on some Eigen ecosystem updates but don't worry, we gotchu covered. 😉
Ethereum is for shipping ♢ Redistribution is for accelerating ☁️
Ethereum is for shipping. Here are 24 things the ecosystem launched, shipped, and scaled over the past few weeks. 0/ @RobinhoodApp is now onchain with @arbitrum, bringing Robinhood’s 25M+ retail users closer to Ethereum-powered finance. 1/ @base launched Base Pay and the
All roads lead to EigenCloud. ☁️
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The future is multi-chain. ☁️⛓️ Every new blockchain brings speed, UX, or new use cases, but each one also fragments security. EigenCloud changes this: AVSs can extend @ethereum's cryptoeconomic trust to any chain. More in 🧵
🧠 The brain: Ethereum 👁️ The eyes: EigenCloud 🦴 The spine: Redistribution
ETH is our fuel
Skill, meet verifiability. 🎮☁️ @showdown_gg and EigenCloud AVS, @OpacityNetwork, are teaming up to unlock trustless wagering and competitive tournaments in AAA games like Fortnite, Valorant, and CoD. ☑️ Powered by ZkTLS ☑️ No mods, no hacks, just proof ☑️ Offchain skill,
Ever dreamed of wagering on your skills in Call of Duty, FIFA, Valorant, and other AAA titles? That vision will soon become a reality. Showdown and @OpacityNetwork join hands to bring skill-based wagering and competitive tournaments to games that have traditionally been closed
The endgame is cloud-scale programmability. The endgame is crypto-grade verifiability. The endgame is EigenCloud. ☁️
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ETH is the engine EIGEN is the accelerator Verifiable Cloud is the highway
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EigenCloud is here to accelerate Ethereum GEthereuM
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Every civilization industrialized something. The Romans, law. The British, trade. The Americans, money. Ethereum, trust. Today, we price trust per byte. As outlined in the @Consensys report, @ethereum has evolved from a smart contract platform into a foundational layer of
The transition from analog to digital trust is well underway. Digital trust, available globally as Trustware, will serve as the bedrock for our global economic system, with Ethereum as its purest, deepest source. Read more in Consensys’ report here: consensys.io/ethereum/trust
📣 ICYMI EigenCloud went Multi-Chain with our first ever integration on @base. 🟦 AVSs can now verify across L2s while preserving Ethereum-aligned trust. Build Anything. Verify Everything.
“You want cloud-scale programmability, but with crypto-grade verifiability.” ~ @sreeramkannan On @BanklessHQ with @TrustlessState and @jt_rose, Sreeram lays out the EigenCloud vision: - Build anything you could build on the cloud - But with the verifiability and trustlessness
At EigenCloud, we’re building the verifiability stack, giving developers the tools to scale applications across execution, data availability, and compute. Trustless interoperability is a core pillar of that vision. We’re excited to support The Signal by @boundless_xyz: an
.@eigenlayer is helping power The Signal on Boundless - bringing ZK interoperability everywhere. Together with EigenCloud, we are creating a more connected ecosystem where proofs become the universal language.
☁️ Heads Up: Last month we unveiled one of the most important releases in crypto infrastructure, EigenCloud. Our very own @sreeramkannan and @jt_rose sat with @TrustlessState on the @BanklessHQ podcast to discuss what EigenCloud is, why it matters, and how it unlocks a new era
Crypto built the root of trust. AI needs it. At @Permissionless IV’s Open Source AI Summit presented by @NearProtocol, @sreeramkannan dropped the most important update in Crypto x AI this year. ☁️ Eigencloud Supercharging Verifiable AI. ☁️ Crypto built the foundation for
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Everything starts here. The infrastructure. The primitives. The proof. The apps they unlock. This is the Verifiable Cloud. EigenCloud ☁️ Build Anything. Verify Everything. All the links you need to get started 🔗 🧵
📣 Louder for the builders in the back! EigenCloud = the Verifiable Cloud ☁️ = 🔌 Build at cloud scale ⚙️ Run with flexible security ✅ Verify at crypto scale All secured by EIGEN. 🪙
The next internet runs on: ☁️░▓▆▃▂▁EigenCloud▁▂▃▆▓░☁️ Programmable. Verifiable. Powered by EIGEN.
more chains more apps more users ONE VERIFIABLE CLOUD ☁️
. @dinero_xyz is bringing pxETH and ipxETH to the Verifiable Cloud. This unlocks restaking rewards for both retail and institutional stakers, secured by EigenCloud, trusted across Ethereum. From DeFi to KYC rails, the future of liquid staking is programmable. Build with us. ☁️
We're excited to announce pxETH and ipxETH restaking on @eigenlayer, in collaboration with @galaxyhq and @LaserDigital_. After almost two years of building Ethereum's fastest-growing LST, it's time to unlock a new yield layer ↓
20+ updates across the ecosystem this week. The verifiable stack keeps moving! ☑️ VIBEscore: the first full app live on EigenCloud ☑️ Enter the Cloud Chain Thesis ☑️ cmETH rewards boosted on Bybit ☑️ Brevis launches Pico GPU: 20× faster ZK proving ☑️ EigenCloud Team goes IRL in
gEigen! This is probably the last time I’m posting Eigen Times, so enjoy! 🧵👇
One cloud. Many apps. Every chain. That’s EigenCloud ☁️
EigenCloud is how we make AI and apps verifiable. Grateful to have @a16z behind the mission.
TIL @eigenlayer is one of @a16z top 10 investments and top 3 crypto investments of all time 🤯
Crypto's Real Breakthrough: Verifiability Over Decentralization
**Crypto's true innovation isn't decentralization** - it's **verifiability**, according to Sreeram Kannan's latest insights. The key breakthrough allows users to **verify actions are provably correct** rather than simply trusting them. This shifts the paradigm from *"trust but verify"* to *"don't trust, just verify."* **Key benefits:** - Actions become mathematically provable - Eliminates need for blind trust - Creates transparent, auditable systems This concept extends beyond basic blockchain transactions to **cloud-scale programmability with crypto-grade verifiability** - enabling developers to build anything possible on traditional cloud infrastructure while maintaining the trustless guarantees of cryptocurrency. The vision represents the foundation for a **programmable and provable internet** where verification replaces trust assumptions.
🔧 EigenAI Tackles LLM's Biggest Problem
**Non-determinism is blocking LLM scaling** - models giving different answers to identical questions make debugging, testing, and trust impossible. **EigenAI's solution: deterministic inference** - Same input = same output, every time - Creates foundation for real verifiability - Powered by EigenCloud infrastructure This addresses a core challenge in AI deployment where unpredictable outputs prevent reliable system integration. **Key benefits:** - Enables proper debugging workflows - Makes testing reproducible - Builds trust in AI systems Try the deterministic inference demo at [deterministicinference.com](https://deterministicinference.com)
EigenCloud Partners with Token Terminal for Transparent Verifiable Cloud Metrics
**EigenCloud announces data partnership with Token Terminal** to make cloud infrastructure metrics more accessible and standardized. The collaboration focuses on **transparency as a core product feature** rather than just a principle. Token Terminal will help standardize EigenCloud's metrics, making them easier to track and verify. **Key highlights:** - Verifiable cloud infrastructure metrics now publicly accessible - Partnership aims to push boundaries of transparent cloud computing - Data standardization improves user ability to monitor performance EigenCloud positions itself as the **"Verifiable Cloud"** that allows builders to: - Build at cloud scale with flexible security - Verify operations at crypto scale - Leverage EIGEN token for cryptoeconomic security This partnership represents another step toward making blockchain infrastructure more transparent and accountable to users.
EigenLayer's Verifiable AI Flywheel Accelerates ETH Ecosystem Growth
**The EigenLayer ecosystem is gaining momentum** through the convergence of three key components: - **ETH as the foundation engine** powering the network - **EIGEN token as the accelerator** enhancing protocol efficiency - **Verifiable Cloud infrastructure** serving as the highway for scalable operations This **flywheel effect** creates a self-reinforcing cycle where each component strengthens the others. The integration of verifiable AI capabilities with EigenLayer's multi-protocol restaking model is **driving innovation at top speed**. The synergy between these elements enables: - Enhanced cryptoeconomic security across protocols - New revenue streams through diversified staking rewards - Improved capital efficiency for network participants **This convergence positions EigenLayer** as a critical infrastructure layer, transforming how Ethereum-based protocols operate and scale in the decentralized ecosystem.
🤖 EigenAI Targets $250B+ AI Inference Market
**EigenAI positions itself to capture massive AI inference spending** The verifiable AI infrastructure provider claims the **$250B+ inference market** will shift toward systems that can prove their outputs. EigenAI's platform enables developers to build AI applications with cryptographic verification. **Key developments:** - EigenCloud launched EigenAI + EigenCompute on mainnet alpha - Platform addresses AI's "black box" problem with provable execution - elizaOS framework now powers 50K+ verifiable AI agents - Multiple partnerships including Collective Memo and FereAI **Technical capabilities:** - Deterministic inference with tamper-proof execution - Cryptographic proofs for every AI operation - Integration with Ethereum's restaking ecosystem - Developer tools at [ai.eigencloud.xyz](http://ai.eigencloud.xyz) The platform targets autonomous agents managing capital, where proving code execution becomes critical for trust and adoption.