EigenLayer: Exploring the Frontier's Horizon with Sreeram Kannan (EigenLayer)
Jul 12, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 58
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Episode description
Sreeram Kannan is the Founder and CEO of EigenLayer (https://www.eigenlayer.xyz/).
Backed by Blockchain Capital, Figment Capital, WAGMI Ventures, & more, EigenLayer is the first market for decentralized trust—creating an ecosystem for restaking, which enables staked ETH to be used as cryptoeconomic security for protocols other than Ethereum, in exchange for protocol fees and rewards. In this episode we discuss Sreeram’s journey through academia, the key insights that produced EigenLayer, the many use cases enabled by EigenLayer, the importance of focus for early-stage projects, and much more.
Recorded Monday July 10th, 2023.
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