The Economics of Staking

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There are ways in which your token can be used even for staking and security, but only as a compliment to this kind of general purpose, slasable security. It's a much less volatile store of value. We've seen these spirals in this space. You guys have covered a lot of it. So we do expect things like dual staking,. where each staking exists as a separate corem and your own token staking existed as a separatecorem. And then you aggregate information from both of these corems and say that, oh, the eat corem has said this and your cardholder has said this. Only if they're within some reasonable deviation, that's

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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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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