Why EigenLayer May Be the Most Innovative New Ecosystem Since Ethereum - Ep. 618

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Laura Shin

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🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Fountain, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Pandora, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Sreeram Kannan, founder of EigenLayer, and Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder and CIO of Polychain Capital, an investor in EigenLayer, say that the developer ecosystem around EigenLayer is sprouting up very fast, which reminds Carlson-Wee of the developer excitement in Ethereum’s early days. They discuss the potential of EigenLayer, which uses a restaking mechanism to allow ETH stakers to reallocate their staked ETH and Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) to bolster security for other protocols. They cover how it could turbocharge Ethereum's rollup scaling roadmap and enable Ethereum to become a stack of decentralized software as a service providers. Additionally, they discuss the potential risks associated with restaking as well as how EigenLayer could work with AI. Read more: What Is EigenLayer? A Guide to the Decentralized ETH Restaking Protocol Show highlights: Sreeram's explanation of what EigenLayer is and what it allows on Ethereum why Polychain invested in EigenLayer's seed round why Sreeram believes that there are not just going to be three modules in blockchains, but thousands the types of applications that can be built with actively validated services, according to Sreeram why they both believe that EigenLayer will improve smart contracts whether EigenLayer will help solve the liquidity fragmentation issue in Layer 2s what Ethereum inclusion guarantees are and why they are important the potential risks of EigenLayer and why Olaf doesn’t agree that EigenLayer results in rehypothecation how attribution claims work in EigenLayer, allowing for "elastic scaling of security" EigenLayer’s points program and the likelihood of a token why Sreeram believes that an EigenLayer governance token wouldn't have the same issues as Lido's LDO whether EigenLayer should be a core part of the Ethereum protocol itself how AI and EigenLayer intersect and how to have permissionless innovation in the AI space Thank you to our sponsors! Polkadot Guest: Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder and CIO of Polychain Capital Previous appearances on Unchained: OG Olaf Carlson-Wee on Why His Crypto Thesis Is Stronger Than Ever Olaf Carlson-Wee: 'If There Is a Money-Losing Exploit, the Money Is Gone' Why The First Employee Of Coinbase Launched A Hedge Fund To the Moon and Back With Polychain's Olaf Carlson-Wee Special Episode with CNBC's Crypto Trader: Olaf Carlson-Wee on Why This Crypto Winter Is Different From Previous Ones All Things Cryptoeconomics, Pt. 1, With Olaf Carlson-Wee and Ryan Zurrer of Polychain Capital Sreeram Kannan, founder of EigenLayer Previous appearance on Unchained: Do You Need to Think Twice Before Restaking Your Assets? Links EigenLayer Unchained: What Is Ethereum Restaking? A Beginner's Guide ETHDenver’s 2024 Hackathon: Onchain Security, AI, and Gaming Fun Dominate the Winning Projects A16z, Binance Labs Make Investments in EigenLayer Ecosystem EigenDA Overview Sreeram’s post on why “building on EigenLayer, therefore, doesn't negate the utility of an AVS token” Points DL News: Kelp DAO opens trading of the $340m EigenLayer airdrop market with KEP CoinDesk: Omni Network Signs $600M Restaking Deal With Ether.Fi to Enhance Security Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know I'm not sure I've seen a dev ecosystem with so many new ideas come up so quickly since
0:07.6	ethereal itself where with ethereal itself you know this it unlocked this whole universe of kind of a multi asset
0:14.4	blockchain, smart contracts.
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