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EigenLayer: The Restaking Collective

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.

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Authors: Eigen Labs
Date: 2023
Publisher: Eigen Labs
Version: Source cited by the 2023 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0033
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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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.

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Official source — EigenLayer white paper
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Eigen Labs (2023). EigenLayer: The Restaking Collective. Eigen Labs. https://docs.eigenlayer.xyz/eigenlayer/overview/whitepaper

BibTeX

@techreport{eigenlayer2023,
  title = {EigenLayer: The Restaking Collective},
  author = {Eigen Labs},
  year = {2023},
  institution = {Eigen Labs},
  url = {https://docs.eigenlayer.xyz/eigenlayer/overview/whitepaper},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/eigenlayer}
}

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Source status: Official source
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