EigenLayer AMA with @sreeramkannan starts at 10:00AM PST. Post your questions below 👇

1/ of many curious Qs: EigenLayers makes a lot of sense but back when there was no Eigenlayer, it was hard to think of this 0 to 1 innovation. How did you come up with it and did you consider PoW for this instead of PoS?

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We have an extensive Risk FAQ Page that answers many of these questions. The one that would directly impact Ethereum's economic security would be around smart contract risks and mass slashing event. This is largely why we've taken a phased approach to mainnet launch as well because we want to minimize the risks...

What risks does eigenlayer present that could compromise the security of the mainnet??

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Great question. It is important that some AVSs are lightweight enought that ANY Ethereum validators can run without any additional stress. There will be more powerful AVSs that require more computation from its operators. For those AVSs...

2 / of many curious Qs: i love the flexible re-supply of security via LSDs (co-ordination super highway) - do you anticipate potential stress on the expansion of duties of validators because of this superhighway?

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Currently they cannot but I think a few LRTs and bridge provider are working on this feature. But I highly recommend restakers to check the underlying mechanism for "restaking on L2s" because they are built permissionless on top of EigenLayer.

Why you cannot restake from L2? The answer is simple, for you to...

Can users (in the future) restake into EigenLayer from Layer2s? If not why ?

4 / of many curious Qs : How can farcaster hubs be built on Eigenlayer and benefit from the security and incentive mechanisms that are available for validators?

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I do think so. Building AVS (Actively Validated Services) on EigenLayer takes a lot of technical knowhow, since it is close to the base layer of the crypto stack.

Do you think having a technical background give you an intuitive understanding that is important when developing products at the level of Eigen?

this might be the best ELI5 explanation about EigenLayer 😂

this might be the best ELI5 explanation about EigenLayer 😂

https://twitter.com/i/status/1757923156348768567

how would you explain the benefits of eigenlayer to a 5 year old?

We currently listed 12 different LSTs. In terms of delegation, that is on the roadmap to go live. So you will be able to delegate to your operator to run different services in the near future.

5 / of many curious Qs : Would you consider creating a marketplace to allow other LSDs to be listed on your platform and not just a handful of big players? The marketplace can also be used: ex / I would like to delegate my LSTs / LSDs to bridges only or to DEX services only. Giving me that option will be great.

when did the idea of Eigen start lingering?

when did you get conviction it could've been something feasible

I'm unsure how this would work. PoW chains, by definition, don't have slashing conditions because all participants are unknown to the network. So, my answer would be no here. I am not familiar with Karmic...

3 / of many curious Qs : Can a slashing mechanism be coupled with the POW, such that your concept of "Karmic resupply of security" be implemented there?

7 / of many curious Qs : Given that LSTs / LSDs can be used to supply on-demand security, what would be the role of Eigenlayer token? (Is it going to be used as a Governance token to determine the When / Where / Why of troop deployment?)

6/ of many curious Qs: I would be grateful for an opportunity if your team could review our LSD for potential listing on Eigenlayer (you already have stETH / sfrxEth / ankrEth / mETH/ etc listed)., gives our users access to more benefits via Eigenlayer.

It seems inevitable that people will over leverage their stake (if not on eigenlayer, then on other peer services in addition to), do you have any strategies for dealing with this?