eigenlayer

What’s your most bearish scenario for EigenLayer?

Researcher
Co-author of EIP-7212 
Ex- @getclave

Validity proofs obsolete slashing earlier than we thought

Devil’s advocate in crypto. Previously @rainbow. Global head of Macro at West Ham Capital

views are my own, protocol @ eigen labs; prev working on decentralization @ gitcoin, llama, stanford medicine.

Yeah I am 99% confident that even in fully scaled zk endgame we need this stuff too it’s just my strongest bear case I could articulate for AVS’

Agreed that endgame is zk for anything execution-related. But subjectivity, like consensus, can’t be solved by zk which is what EiL provides: abstractions of PoS systems.

Oh I’m hugely bullish on the overlap and I do think slashing/fraud proofs will find use cases well after we use validity proofs to scale everything. But that would be my best case - zk moon math gets so good that cryptoeconomic security has less use cases (so less AVS’s)