The State of EigenLayer with Sreeram Kannan | ETHDenver 2023 Interview #6
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🗓️ 9 March 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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In this episode, we’re talking to Sreeram Kannan of EigenLayer, a platform to leverage Ethereum security through the innovative method of restaking. Sreeram and David chat about EigenLayer’s evolution, wen mainnet(?!), what the EigenLayer competition looks like, and much more! ‘
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
3:10 EigenLayer’s Evolution
3:51 Wen Mainnet?
4:56 What to Build on EigenLayer
6:27 Supporting the Builders
7:13 EigenLayer Competitors
8:10 EigenLayer Mod Analogy
10:33 The EigenLayer Chain Spectrum
14:21 Good Technical EigenLayer Questions
18:02 Action Items, Jobs, & Closing
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Resources:
Sreeram Kannan
https://twitter.com/sreeramkannan
EigenLayer
https://twitter.com/eigenlayer
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| 0:00.0 | We are at the Axler Interoperability Series next up in this conversation. |
| 0:16.0 | We're talking to Sri Ram from Eigenlayer. |
| 0:18.4 | I think you probably might not need to know what Eigenlayer is because it has absolutely |
| 0:22.5 | swept to the Web 3 world by swarm, at least to the Ethereum world because it's created |
| 0:26.4 | this thing called re-staking, where you can apply your each-stake to more things than |
| 0:30.4 | just Ethereum-staking, getting a lot of the Ethereum community very, very excited, and |
| 0:34.4 | it's also allowed for new kinds of chains to be interoperable inside of the Ethereum |
| 0:38.5 | ecosystem. |
| 0:39.5 | So, we're going to go talk to Sri Ram right now, all about Eigenlayer, and where Eigenlayer |
| 0:42.9 | is in its development, but first a moment to talk about some of these fantastic sponsors |
| 0:46.5 | that make the show possible. |
| 0:47.5 | Kraken is our strategic sponsor for 2023. |
| 0:50.6 | Why? |
| 0:51.6 | Because Kraken has been around for over 12 years, and has proven itself to be deeply aligned |
| 0:55.0 | with the crypto industry. |
| 0:56.2 | Lots of centralized crypto platforms are hard to come by these days, which makes the |
| 0:59.8 | few remaining ones even more valuable. |
| 1:01.6 | With over 9 million users and not a cent lost, choosing Kraken as our strategic sponsor |
| 1:06.2 | for 2023 was a no-brainer. |
| 1:08.1 | We need exchanges like Kraken to provide the on-ramps to get people to go bankrupt. |
| 1:12.3 | And Kraken's emphasis on security and transparency makes us feel good about having them as a |
| 1:16.8 | sponsor. |
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