First signs of Eigencloud disrupting non-pure blockchain usecases.
Adressing a $10T+ market.
ETH security guarantees for every web2 usecase is coming.
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nader dabit
An Ethereum-powered app (Earnifi) just won Best Financial Services App at the 2025 American Business Awards. (@TheStevieAwards)
Not a crypto award, a mainstream award won by companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Google.
You might not hear your favorite influencer talking about it because it doesn't involve memecoins, gambling, it's not a launchpad, etc..
But it's become the #1 paid finance app in the App Store.
Built on @OpacityNetwork.
Powered by @eigenlayer.
📍 Problem: Workers need small advances. Payday loans exploit them.
📍 Solution: Prove earned but unpaid income privately.
📍 Result: Earnifi become the #1 paid finance app in the App Store.
@ArynChadha and @Euler__Lagrange + team are 🐐.
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In case you were away from crypto like me last week:
> US just bombed Iran (Just in 🚨)
> $Crcl above $200
> Pumpfun TGE delayed
> Genius ACT is officially passed
> A lot of talks about CLOB on-chain
> Eigenlayer rebranded into @eigenlayer
> JP Morgan is considering a stablecoin on base
> Bybit is launching Byreal, a liquidity layer on SOL
> A wave of stock tokenisation is coming on-chain
> EarniFi, won @TheStevieAwards for the best fin-app
> Ansem mentioned Poopman :)
Not much exciting happened, go ahead and take some profit in real life and keep healthy folks.
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Poopman (💩🧱✨)
Back from vacation and this is what happened last week in crypto.
> US just bombed Iran (Just in).
> $Crcl above $200.
> Pumpfun TGE delayed.
> Genius ACT is officially passed.
> A lot of talks about CLOB on-chain.
> Eigenlayer rebranded into @eigenlayer.
> JP Morgan is considering a stablecoin on base.
> Bybit is launching Byreal, a liquidity layer on SOL.
> A wave of stock tokenisation is coming on-chain.
> EarniFi, won @TheStevieAwards for the best fin-app.
> Ansem mentioned Poopman :)
What have I missed?
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"Infra is either a platform or a commoditization." - It's an inspiring idea, but I don't fully agree with it.
What I understand @_weidai Teacher's core view: The endgame of web2/web3 infrastructure product development may have two completely different paths:
1) In the fierce competition of the subdivision track, it was imitated by competing products and reduced to "mainland goods";
2) Platform products with strong network effects.
The value brought by the former is linear, and it makes a penny to sell the product to a customer; The latter brings a squared increase in value, and the more users based on the platform, the stronger the scale effect, and the steeper the value growth curve of the platform.
Focusing on the Crypto industry, infra's transformation product business mainly includes all XaaS track projects: such as RaaS (Rollup-as-a-Service), AVSaaS (AVS-as-a-Service), ZKaaS (ZK-as-a-Service) and so on. RaaS stands for projects such as OP Stack, @arbitrum Orbit, @Calderaxyz; AVSaaS stands for Project @eigenlayer; ZKaaS stands for projects such as @boundless_xyz, @SuccinctLabs.
But what is easy to overlook is that most of the products in the INFRA track are technology-intensive, and they are not easy to imitate; Taking a step back, before the technical barriers disappear, they have enough time to reach a consensus on the community of interests of B-end consumers, and the value generated by B-end consumers as platform products can be passed on to infra itself.
This is not a one-time transaction, but a strongly related community of interests.
A good example of this is OP Stack and @base, OP Stack provides RaaS one-click chain service for Base, and Base feeds back to OP Stack's parent company @Optimism through revenue sharing. The more revenue that Base generates, the more revenue @Optimism share. The OP Stack is well positioned to capture the value generated by Base's potential network effects.
Another example is @eigenlayer, @eigenlayer can be attributed to a commoditized infra, but what he provides to B-end consumers is not a one-time AVS service with a clear price, but a community of interests strongly associated with its native token, $EIGEN. After @eigenlayer brand upgrade to EigenCloud, it provides B-end users with data availability EigenDA, dispute resolution EigenVerify and verifiable off-chain computing EigenCompute, in a sense, the essence of EigenLayer's brand upgrade is to maximize the value generated by the network effect of B-end users.
So
Putting aside technical barriers and value transfer, it is unfair to talk about the commoditization of infra, and infra can be invincible through the feedback of B-end users through platformization.
Wei Dai
on infra & platforms
tldr: infra either become platforms or face commodification long term
new technology (like zk, fast consensus etc.) often gets built out as infrastructure, which are basically products that unlocks novel and useful capabilities for applications and use cases
examples: zk enabled rollups and privacy-preserving payments, fast consensus enabled faster decentralized chains.
at some point, every infrastructure company faces a choice between two business models: product/process businesses vs. platform businesses. note: it's a spectrum instead of a strict binary divide.
example of product/process businesses: iphones, software (like b2b saas), rollup-as-a-service
example of platform businesses: app store, ride hailing/uber, social networks, chains
product/process businesses often has Θ(n) value, where n is the number of customers or product that gets sold.
platform businesses often has Θ(n^2) value, where n is the number of participants, crucially due to the network effects of the platform. this is how the math works: the marginal value of the network to each new entrants is linear in the size of the network. hence summing over all the participants we get n^2 asymptotically
one key long-term difference between the two is this:
- products tend to commoditized over time
- platforms tend to have winner-take-all effects
a good case study here are phones and app stores: smart phones are mostly commoditized now, but the app stores (application platforms with distribution) create and accrual proportionally more value
while digital infrastructure companies can build product businesses, it is much more beneficial to find ways to unlock network effects and build platforms
how does this apply to blockchains? chains are (secure) application platform, they not only provide backend infrastructure, but also network effects in form of liquidity, users, and distribution
if you are a technical founder in crypto, think about how your tech unlocks better platforms
infra either become platforms or get commoditized
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nader dabit
An Ethereum-powered app (Earnifi) just won Best Financial Services App at the 2025 American Business Awards. (@TheStevieAwards)
Not a crypto award, a mainstream award won by companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Google.
You might not hear your favorite influencer talking about it because it doesn't involve memecoins, gambling, it's not a launchpad, etc..
But it's become the #1 paid finance app in the App Store.
Built on @OpacityNetwork.
Powered by @eigenlayer.
📍 Problem: Workers need small advances. Payday loans exploit them.
📍 Solution: Prove earned but unpaid income privately.
📍 Result: Earnifi become the #1 paid finance app in the App Store.
@ArynChadha and @Euler__Lagrange + team are 🐐.
The current price of Eigen is $1.0272. Over the last 24 hours, Eigen has decreased by -7.12%. It currently has a circulating supply of 309,329,213 EIGEN and a maximum supply of 1,731,580,591 EIGEN, giving it a fully diluted market cap of $317.68M. At present, Eigen holds the 92 position in market cap rankings. The Eigen/USD price is updated in real-time.
Eigen’s biggest 24-hour price drop was on Dec 6, 2024, (UTC+8), when it fell by $1.2140 (-25.13%). In Dec 2024, Eigen experienced its biggest drop over a month, falling by $2.3820 (-42.09%). Eigen’s biggest drop over a year was by $3.6140 (-84.58%) in 2025.
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EIGEN is a universal intersubjective work token within the EigenLayer protocol. It's called an "intersubjective" token because it's designed to address intersubjective faults in a network. These are faults where there's consistent agreement among the majority of network participants that a malicious act has been committed. As a result, EIGEN helps to secure the network by discouraging inconsistent behaviors.
The EigenLayer protocol allows stakers of ETH, the native token of the Ethereum network, to extend the network's security to other applications across the EigenLayer network through a novel concept known as restaking. Here, ETH stakers can restake their tokens to secure other protocols built on EigenLayer, without the need to build a separate validator set.
How does EIGEN work?
Where ETH is used to secure services or protocols, EIGEN helps to address intersubjective faults that deserve a penalty by introducing intersubjective staking. In this situation, stakers who act outside of the network's rules can be penalized through slashing. Slashing sees individuals lose a quantity of their staked ETH. According to the project, through this approach, the EIGEN token allows the token to be forked without forking the Ethereum mainnet consensus.
EIGEN is also used to secure EigenDA, a data availability layer that supports Ethereum rollups.
Price and tokenomics
Season one of stakedrop claims for the EIGEN token opened on May 10, 2024. Here, 6.05% of the token's total supply of 1.67 billion EIGEN were made available to eligible users. Season one phase two of the stakedrop launched in June 2024, and made a further 0.7% of the total token supply available. According to the project, future seasons will see a further 1.5% of the total EIGEN tokens released.
Alongside the 15% of tokens allocated to stakedrops, 15% will go towards community initiatives, with 15% allocated to ecosystem development. A further 29.5% will be allocated to investors, with 25.5% assigned to early contributors.
All tokens allocated to investors and core contributors will remain fully locked up for one year after the date on which the token first becomes transferrable for the community. After this date, the EIGEN tokens allocated to investors and core contributors will be unlocked at a rate of 4% per month. This means EIGEN held by investors and core contributors won’t be fully unlocked until three years after the date the tokens first become transferable for the community.
About the founders
EigenLayer was founded in 2021 by Sreeram Kannan, a former professor at the University of Washington. Kannan remains as the project's CEO today. EigenLayer is developed by Eigen Labs, a research organization "focused on contributing to protocols that supercharge open innovation on Ethereum", according to the company's official X account.
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In the last 24 hours, there have been 2.2K new posts about Eigen, driven by 1.1K contributors, and total online engagement reached 598K social interactions. The sentiment score for Eigen currently stands at 70%. Compared to all cryptocurrencies, post volume for Eigen currently ranks at --. Keep an eye on changes to social metrics as they can be key indicators of the influence and reach of Eigen.
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Eigen FAQ
What is the total supply of EIGEN?
EIGEN has a total supply of 1.67 billion.
Is it safe to trade EIGEN?
Although EIGEN is the native token of a legitimate crypto project in EigenLayer, there’s always an element of risk when trading any form of crypto asset. That's why it's important to do your own research and never trade with more than you can afford to lose.
What problem does EigenLayer solve?
EigenLayer helps to extend the security benefits of the Ethereum network to more projects in a cost-effective way, through restaking. Those who stake ETH can use EigenLayer smart contracts that extend cryptoeconomic security to other applications built on the network.
How can I get hold of the EIGEN token?
EIGEN tokens were initially available to users of the EigenLayer protocol who claimed their share of the tokens’ total supply. The tokens weren’t transferable once claimed, meaning any EIGEN held couldn't be brought or sold. You can obtain EIGEN once the token is listed for spot trading on exchanges.
How much is 1 Eigen worth today?
Currently, one Eigen is worth $1.0272. For answers and insight into Eigen's price action, you're in the right place. Explore the latest Eigen charts and trade responsibly with OKX.
What is cryptocurrency?
Cryptocurrencies, such as Eigen, are digital assets that operate on a public ledger called blockchains. Learn more about coins and tokens offered on OKX and their different attributes, which includes live prices and real-time charts.
When was cryptocurrency invented?
Thanks to the 2008 financial crisis, interest in decentralized finance boomed. Bitcoin offered a novel solution by being a secure digital asset on a decentralized network. Since then, many other tokens such as Eigen have been created as well.
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