Enhancing Ethereum: Arbitrum and Eigenlayer Innovations

Is re-staking the biggest thing to happen to Ethereum since MEV? 

We’re joined by Sreeram Kannan who walks us through Eigenlayer. The re-staking protocol that is set to change the trajectory of Ethereum forever. It may even be launching pretty soon…

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------ Topics Covered

0:00 Intro 7:51 How Big Is Restaking? 9:41 What is Restaking? 16:22 What Was The Aha Moment? 21:32 Restaking Explained (Simply) 25:11 Where Does Eigenlayer Live? 29:40 Slashing on Eigenlayer 42:20 Risks of Restaking 57:23 Restaking Networks 1:05:27 Designing Modular Trust 1:07:43 Eigen DA 1:10:35 The 3 Aspects Of Trust 1:14:18 Tokens On Eigenlayer 1:17:54 Why Start a Network on Eigenlayer? 1:24:22 2 Uses Of Economic Security 1:26:06 Eigenlayer Alignment 1:30:42 Restaking Risk Management 1:36:19 Takes on Vitalik's Post 1:46:55 When is Mainnet Launch? 1:49:59 How Will Restaking Change The World? 1:56:59 Outro

——— Resources:

Sreeram Kannan: https://twitter.com/sreeramkannan 

Vitalik’s Article ‘Don’t Overload’: https://vitalik.ca/general/2023/05/21/dont_overload.html 

Sapiens by Yuval Harari: https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095 

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