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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.
Show highlights:
Sreeram's explanation of what EigenLayer is and what is allows on Ethereum
Why Polychain invested in EigenLayer's seed round
Why Sreerarm 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
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