Crypto’s core value lies in trust guarantees. EigenCloud extends that guarantee to computation itself. Here is EigenCloud explained in 4 images. 1. The bottleneck of crypto applications. Ethereum launched with two fundamental constraints: scalability and programmability. The industry spent a decade solving scalability through Layer 2 rollups, data availability layers, and high-throughput chains. Throughput is no longer the limiting factor. Smart contracts suffer from four critical limitations that prevent developers from building sophisticated applications: a. Software limitations (i.e. can't use existing off-chain software easily) b. Hardware limitations (i.e. can't request GPUs for AI workloads, high-performance CPUs for complex computation, or trusted execution environments for sensitive operations) c. Interface limitations (i.e. limited to onchain data or oracle-secured information) d. Consensus limitations (i.e. no control over node communication or agreement) Programmability remains the bottleneck. 2. The solution. Public clouds enable developers to use any software, provision hardware, stream data, and assemble systems from managed services. Blockchains provide tamper-resistant execution but force developers to contort complex logic into constrained, token-centric architectures. EigenCloud enables developers to move expressive application logic into verifiable off-chain containers while keeping only minimal consensus-enforced logic onchain: cloud programmability with crypto verifiability. 3. The primitives of EigenCloud EigenCloud is a suite of developer tools designed to make building verifiable applications as frictionless as deploying to AWS or Google Cloud, while maintaining the cryptoeconomic security that makes crypto applications trustworthy. EigenCloud builds on EigenLayer's foundation of shared cryptoeconomic security through three developer primitives that solve specific problems: a. EigenDA: The most scalable data availability service on the planet. b. EigenVerify: Dispute Resolution-as-a-Service c. EigenCompute: Container Orchestration with Crypto Security 4. EIGEN: The Verifiable Cloud Token The EIGEN token enables EigenCloud's capabilities through its forkability mechanism: the first programmable verifiability token in crypto. Token Forking: EIGEN token's forkability deters malicious stakers by enabling slashing through forking, similar to an L1 token’s role today. EigenCloud Flywheel: EigenLayer created a supply-side flywheel where more stake attracts more AVSs, which generates more compensatory rewards for stakers. EigenCloud supercharges the demand side by expanding verifiable application types (EigenVerify) and making security consumption easier (EigenCompute). As more powerful AVSs get built, novel applications build on them, and as applications proliferate, new AVSs compete for their business. While we're seeing many crypto-native apps like CLOBs, exchanges, stablecoins, etc... being built on EigenCloud, there are many apps live on that have PMF outside of crypto: You can get an overview of some of the apps building on EigenCloud here: -------------------- More resources: To dive deeper, check out these resources: [a] EigenCloud technical blog [b] EigenCloud whitepaper [c] 90 Second announcement video [d] This breakdown from @castle_labs [e] This breakdown from @0xyanshu