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Eigenlayer In 2024 With CEO Sreeram Kannan

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4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Ethereum validators are earning yield for nearly a million wallets but what happens if you can restake that ETH for even more yields? Eigen Layer is one of the most ambitious projects in crypto and crossed a billion dollars in deposits while recording this episode.

Joining us today is special technical co-host Mike Neuder to discuss all things Eigen Layer with Sreeram and Teddy from the team.

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Timestamps 

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:26 Episode Overview
00:09:20 Current State of Eigen Layer
00:12:01 Cap Limits and Accepted Tokens
00:19:42 Economic Security
00:25:51 Eigen Incentive Structures
00:34:12 What Is Eigen DA?
00:40:29 Benefits From Eigen DA
00:45:28 Why Eigen DA?
00:55:31 Throughput and Slashing
01:05:58 Finality Layer
01:10:51 ABS Aggregation
01:16:53 The Veto Committee
01:21:04 Neutrality
01:24:40 Networks in 2024
01:28:27 When Mainnet


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Resources

Mike
https://twitter.com/mikeneuder 

Sreeram
https://twitter.com/sreeramkannan 

Teddy
https://twitter.com/TedBreyer 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's keep all the blockchain wars L1, L2, L3, like aside, right?

0:04.8

Just let this shrink in.

0:06.8

It's insane, it's amazing, it's unusual, it's like we're becoming this much, much more coordinated.

0:13.7

In fact, as a species, I think our evolutionary advantage

0:16.6

is that we're able to cooperate at a scale that is simply not possible

0:20.7

for other species in a flexible way.

0:25.0

Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of Eigenlayer.

0:30.0

Eigenlayer is just about two quarters away from Mainnet and the excitement and demand for Eigenlayer has been relentlessly crescendoing. And while recording this very episode with Sri Ram and Teddy from the Eigenlayer team, Eigenlayer passed a billion dollars in deposited value

0:45.3

into the Eigenlayer system, making the future of Eigenlayer in 2024, a very interesting topic

0:50.8

to explore here on the show today.

0:53.7

And to help me explore a more technical topic, I brought in a technical co-host.

0:57.9

Mike Norder from the E.S.

0:59.7

Is joining me today.

1:00.7

He's a researcher at the E.F. He is a malady on Twitter and he's most known on

1:05.7

bankless as my rock climbing buddy in Brooklyn. Mike, how's it going my dude?

1:09.6

It's going great David. Yeah, thanks for having me on. Have been a bankless listener for a long time,

1:13.6

so to be here hosting with you is a real treat.

1:16.5

So, thanks again.

1:18.2

Well, whenever we need technical co-host

1:20.3

to explore technical topics,

1:21.8

I always learn more than a few things.

1:24.4

And that's definitely what happened here on the episode today.

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