The Eigen Foundation is excited to announce the upcoming Programmatic Incentives v1 release, a new EigenLayer protocol feature, providing programmatic EIGEN rewards to stakers and operators for their active participation in supporting AVSs. What Programmatic Incentives v1 will enable weekly programmatic rewards of newly-minted EIGEN tokens to qualifying stakers and

Eigen Labs is excited to introduce the EigenLayer Security Model, an evolution of our previous model, in preparation for the upcoming ‘Slashing’ protocol feature release. This blog post is a simple description of how EigenLayer empowers AVSs to operate more efficiently and create economically aligned incentives using three foundational concepts:

Eigen Labs is pleased to announce the EigenPod upgrade, a major update to the EigenLayer protocol, making native ETH restaking on EigenLayer easier and more rewarding. What The EigenPod upgrade introduces a novel balance checkpointing system for managing Ethereum validator and EigenPod balances. When All EigenPods on mainnet have been

CoinDesk published an article on airdrops in our ecosystem and Eigen Labs employee participation in those airdrops. We’ve written a community update on what happened, why it happened, and steps we’ve taken.  We want to make clear that we have no knowledge or evidence of any employee at

Eigen Labs is proud to introduce Permissionless Token Support, an upcoming update, to the EigenLayer protocol. This feature will enable any ERC-20 token to be permissionlessly added as a restakable asset, significantly broadening the scope of assets that can contribute to the security of decentralized networks, and unlocking the cryptoeconomic

Over the past few years, we at Eigen Labs have been developing a platform for advancing the concept of open, verifiable digital commons. This blog post summarizes the intersubjective forking protocol enabled by the EIGEN token. We will break down the significance of EIGEN, its core ideas, its high-level implementation,

We're excited to announce the culmination of our phased rollout with the removal of all Liquid Staking Token (LST) caps and unpausing deposits, effective April 16th, 2024, at 9:00 AM PST. This milestone marks the next chapter in EigenLayer's journey, fostering a wide-open and dynamic

In recent months, liquid restaking protocols and liquid restaking tokens (LRTs) have seen tremendous growth, and are beginning to become systemically important in the EigenLayer ecosystem. There are many different flavors of LRT, each with different values, features, and offerings. All of these LRT projects are independent of the underlying