CanonEigenLayer
EigenLayer: paper, then practice.
EigenLayer, in the paper, reuses stake as security for other services. The extra conditions are extra ways the stake can be penalised.
Eigen Labs. 2023. Status: Design paper. Last reviewed: 1 October 2026.
- The paper. Eigen Labs' design for letting Ethereum stakers opt in to additional slashing conditions, so new services can rent economic security instead of bootstrapping a new token set from zero.
- Restaking.
- Native, liquid, restaked.
- Staking checklist.
What this chain does not claim
It does not rank a network, quote a yield, or say the live client still matches the paper. The full study keeps the limits. Primary source: EigenLayer white paper.