eigenlayer

Got asked for a ELI5 Data Availability 

I used the example of expecting someone to put money into your piggy bank. 

The DA layer acts as the see-through coating to enable you to ensure the person put the dollar in it. 

Works in some aspects but falls short in others ... 

short 🧵

EigenDA DevRel - onchain thinker and sharer of information
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A more accurate analogy could be a taking a video of the someone putting the money in 

(deep fakes don't exist in this 5y/o realm)

This gets at the ability to replay transactions, ensure it happened as expected. 

Now not just those who were present in the moment can make sure you were paid, send it to friends and family and they can check it out

It also gets at the discreteness aspect of blockchains in the sense of block by block or really transaction by transaction being verifiable. 

Check the video frame by frame and you can see the whole chain of actions

Accurate in the sense of transparency a DA layer provides, making the data publicly verifiable creates accountability. 

In this case its happening live, you can then verify it happened yourself. 

But it lacks the aspect of replaying or more scalable way to verify unless you're physically there ...