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EigenDA Dual Quorum and Production Traffic Announcement

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We are supporting rollup production traffic on EigenDA mainnet available immediately. Anyone can now deploy their rollup and be whitelisted on our free tier. Interested rollup customers should fill out the EigenDA Contact Form in order to be approved for the initial free-tier usage phase. Please provide the ETH address associated with a new ECDSA keypair for authenticating your client with the EigenDA disperser. We strongly recommend that no funds be held by this contract address; see documentation and usage tutorial for further usage guidance. If you’d like to learn more about our reserved bandwidth tiers, please get in touch. As always, good places to get started are EigenDA documentation and the Holesky testnet.

Onboarding Rollups to Dual Quorum

One of the business models described in the EigenLayer whitepaper is the dual staking utility which can feature two quorums: ETH restakers and $AVS stakers. We are happy to announce that the dual quorum model we previously announced on Holesky testnet is now available on EigenDA mainnet. Initially, EigenDA dual quorum launches with ETH as the first quorum and EIGEN as the second quorum. This means that EIGEN holders will be able to stake to EigenDA operators, and those operators can opt in to EigenDA’s dual quorum, adding more security to the network. Following stakedrop claims on May 10, EigenDA currently has over 44M EIGEN staked and delegated. 

We are working hard to extend this multiple quorum model to enable EigenDA rollups to stake their own custom tokens to secure blobs. More to come on this soon.

Each quorum backing a given EigenDA blob lends additional security, since the blob will remain available as long as there is a single quorum which has not been corrupted. Individual quorums can also provide additional security properties given the characteristics of the token being staked. EigenDA is currently building on a roadmap which will maximize the security provisioned by both the ETH and EIGEN Quorums: 

  • As slashing comes to the core EigenLayer protocol, EigenDA will work to enable ETH slashing via Proof of Custody.
  • The EIGEN whitepaper introduces the idea of intersubjective slashing, which becomes a possibility with an EIGEN quorum securing EigenDA. Dual quorum launch prepares the way for entering the intersubjective setup phase at the right moment. 

This is a step towards our ambitious roadmap of providing the best data availability layer deeply integrated with tooling to enable open innovation.

Stake EIGEN now on EigenDA.

Mainnet Production Traffic

We recently announced that EigenDA is live on mainnet and we have been onboarding rollups for test traffic. After this final stage of testing and hardening, we are pleased to announce that EigenDA is now supporting production traffic for any rollup. 

We have been working hard in sync with our community of restakers and DA operators to achieve our system performance goals in order to enable the next generation of blockchain applications. Today, EigenDA has over 230 operators and over 120,000 stakers delegating over 3.4M ETH to secure the network. Not only does this introduce the first alt-DA solution running in production secured by restaked ETH, it also holistically engages many pieces of the EigenLayer cryptoeconomic ecosystem to form a critical piece of infrastructure for the next era of services and applications.

For a limited time, any rollup may use EigenDA with throughput similar to production L2s for free. This is meant to showcase the advantages of the EigenDA product and be competitive with the EIP-4844 Dencun upgrade. For performance beyond these rates, and to reserve bandwidth in advance, please get in touch with the team.

Interested rollup customers should fill out the EigenDA Contact Form in order to be approved for the initial free-tier usage phase. EigenDA currently supports ECDSA authentication to facilitate fast, early-stage integrations. Please provide the ETH address associated with a new ECDSA keypair for authenticating your client with the EigenDA disperser. We strongly recommend that no funds be held by this contract address, and if you are building a rollup, that this is a different from your sequencer address; see documentation and usage tutorial for further usage guidance. If you’d like to learn more about our reserved bandwidth tiers, please get in touch. As always, good places to get started are EigenDA documentation and the Holesky testnet.

Onboarding the first rollups onto EigenDA mainnet is the next stage of a multi-stage launch towards the endgame for data availability for the Ethereum ecosystem. Read more at our mainnet launch announcement about new brand new use cases enabled as well as EigenDA benefits such as hyperscalability, cost flexibility, ease of integration, and native token staking.

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