How EigenDA Plugs Into the Modular Paradigm

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EigenDA is run by the Ethereum Stakers so you're inheriting aspects of the Ether Plus network. The dominant fraction of the fees go to the data availability layer and if you're basically paying all that fee to a different ecosystem right which is notthereum then you are much more in the economic sense a Celestia roll-up or a polygon avail roll-up than your RNA-theorem roll-up. But from our own you know team perspective we are actually way more bullish on crypto than that is implied by the data bandwidths of like 4844 and dong sharding. We think having tens of kilobytes per second in 4844 and maybe a megabyte per

In this week's episode of 0xResearch, Sreeram Kannan explains how EigenLayer enables permissionless and modular innovation across all blockchain layers. We explore EigenLayer's ETH value accrual mechanism, slashing mechanics and economic incentives, novel data availability solutions, re-staking risks and more. EigenLayer might be the most underrated project in Ethereum right now. Tune in to find out why!

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:10) Hot Seat/Cool Throne

(15:51) Solana's Bonk by Flipside Insights

(18:44) “Chainalysis Ad”

(19:16) Interview Start: EigenLayer

(35:05) LSD and Native Re-Staking

(40:43) Slashing Mechanics

(46:47) “Chainalysis Ad”

(47:29) Pricing the Value of Decentralization

(52:29) EigenLayer's role in a Modular Paradigm

(58:57) EigenDA vs Other Data Availability Services

(1:07:46) Does Re-Staking Overleverage ETH's Security?

(1:12:43) Deployment Timeline

(1:14:57) EigenLayer's Value Accrual

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