a16z purchased $70M worth of EIGEN tokens.

Participated in a fireside chat titled "Rise of Agentic Finance" at the Open Source AI Summit in San Francisco on 2026-02-25, with founder Sreeram Kannan speaking alongside NEAR Protocol's representative.

Unlocks 36.82 million tokens on February 1st, valued at $12.3 million, representing 8.88% of circulating supply.

Has a token unlock of $6.71M (6.17% of market cap) scheduled for the week of February 23-March 1, 2026.

Has over 3.47 million ETH supporting UniFi AVS through restaked ETH on EigenLayer.

Collaborated with @TrulyAutonomous to launch the first Agent Media Company on the platform.

Partnered with Reya to provide EigenDA bandwidth for institutional-grade onchain trading infrastructure, enabling verifiable order data at scale with settlements on Ethereum verified via zk proofs.

Integrated with mETH Protocol, with the integration redistributing millions worth of EIGEN tokens to asset adopters through treasury restaking during the early phase.

Offers developer credits for builders working with eigencompute's privacy cloud infrastructure through @eigencloud.

Extended Open Innovation Challenge deadline to February 27, 2026, offering $10,000 prize for Verifiable or Sovereign Agent built on EigenCloud, with EigenCompute credits and Claude AI credits for students.

Shipped News Analyst, a fully verifiable AI news analyst engine, on EigenCloud and EigenDA with deterministic outputs, blob-dispersed reports, and end-to-end reconstruction capability via commitments.

Will not have team presence at ETH Denver 2026.

Eigenpie offers ~68% APR in EIGEN rewards for users who lock EGP tokens as vlEGP, which also provides governance voting power and Eigenpie Points for Season 4.

Reached $8.4B in restaked assets by April 2025.

Integrated EigenDA as the first major L2 to do so for enterprise-grade scalability.

ELIP-12 implementation is expected to reduce sell pressure on the token.

Released a new whitepaper outlining architecture designed to scale EigenDA performance by 10x and beyond.

EigenDA operates with 100 operators supporting its network infrastructure.

Fuel Network launches o2, a fully onchain spot DEX with real orderbook, now live for whitelisted users across the eigen_da ecosystem.

The Eigen Arena opens, featuring AI trading agents powered by EigenCloud inference competing on Aerodrome Finance.

$EIGEN faces exchange delisting on December 17th at 08:00 UTC, with index price fixed at the average of the last hour before delisting.

OpenFront (650,000 MAU gaming app) launches paid tournaments powered by EigenCloud, marking production deployment for non-crypto gaming use case.

Mantle integrates EigenDA as part of their 2025 infrastructure achievements.

Partnership with Story project announced focusing on joint thesis for verifiable AI as next frontier.

Celo Labs activates Jello Hardfork on Celo Mainnet with support from eigen_da and SuccinctLabs.

Publishes framework for AltDA secure integration on Ethereum, providing the first formalization of secure integration requirements for L2 systems and aligning with L2beat framework principles.

Hokulea library receives security audit from VeridiseInc, specialists in formal verification and ZK security.

eigen_da secures and scales Celo blockchain, described as one of the leading blockchains by usage and real world adoption.

Celo's Jello Hardfork goes live with EigenDA's Hokulea in production, using zk fault proofs for dispute resolution and alternative data availability. "Inside Eigen" series launches with deep dives into EigenCompute development including verifiable builds, onchain CI/CD, and decentralized KMS.

LittDB features GB/s data availability throughput and zero-copy architecture.

The protocol dropped out of the DeFi Top 20 by TVL rankings between December 2024 and December 2025.

Launched EigenCompute service enabling onchain poker with private cards, instant gameplay, and trustless payouts, running agents inside TEEs with hardware-encrypted memory and disk using Eigen KMS. Powers Sovra's AI cartoonist agent through EigenCloud TEEs and attestations, enabling verifiable private autonomous operation with sealed in-enclave keys and state enforced by onchain contracts on Base and Solana, and launched technology stack enabling smart contracts to run AI agents and own digital accounts, built on breakthroughs for unstoppable, verifiable, private compute and data.

LittDB achieves 1,500x throughput improvement for EigenDA with millisecond writes and sub-millisecond reads, code now open sourced with engineering blog post detailing the zero-copy, zero-compaction architecture.

EigenDA launches LittDB, a zero-copy write-once key-value database purpose-built for hyperscale data availability to support EigenCloud infrastructure.

eigen_da serves as the data availability backbone for EigenCloud, working in conjunction with LittDB to provide the infrastructure layer.

Rebranded to EigenCloud in June 2025, conducts layoffs, pivots to verifiable cloud computing including EigenDA, EigenCompute, and EigenVerify for agentic applications.

Celo uses EigenLayer alongside OP Stack for its Ethereum L2 infrastructure, with the network serving 700K-750K unique active addresses on peak days and 11M+ activated wallets through MiniPay.

Partnership announced with RecallNet for AI Agent Trading arena using EigenAI's verifiable inference on Base/Aerodrome. DataHaven launches Camp Haven gamified storage platform on EigenLayer with $HAVE airdrop campaign.

Fee switcher remains disabled preventing commission revenue from staking/restaking, slashing mechanism not production-ready limiting AVS development, and ecosystem airdrop flywheel has broken down after initial projects received no reciprocal value. Resource allocation heavily favors ETH stakers over EIGEN token holders and ecosystem projects despite lack of slashing risk.

Multiple altDA providers have shut down and remaining providers are cutting headcount, raising going concern issues for the sector.

Eigencloud workshop launches to teach developers how to smart contractify Docker containers in under 30 minutes, enabling cross-chain verifiable applications including trading vaults, AI agents, and multiplayer games.

New developer portal launches for EigenCloud, providing access to EigenAI, EigenCompute, and EigenDA services.

High insider emissions scheduled for December 2025, making it one of the month's key unlocks to watch closely.

Continuous decline in KPIs and price from day 1 of token launch, with insiders able to cash out large amounts of secondary.

Partners with Polymarket, Kaito, and Brevis; integrates Coinbase AgentKit and Google's A2A protocol.

Partnership with Google Cloud announced, Prompt to DeFi product launches, and protocol expands to Monad and MegaETH chains.

Team publishes retrospective announcing strategic shift to put EIGEN token at the center of the protocol system and expand focus from AVSs to verifiable applications, alongside deeper AI agent integration with EigenAI, EigenCompute, and EigenDA.

Launched MoltCourt on EigenCloud, a platform for AI agents to engage in structured multi-round debates with verdicts scored by an AI jury and powered by EigenCompute. Agents can be built on EigenCloud using EigenAI and EigenDA.

ETHGas protocol enables real-time Ethereum L1 confirmations through EigenLayer, with validators opting in to provide super-fast block confirmations under penalty of slashing.

COO Alan Curtis leaves EigenLayer to join TheInventionNet inventors' platform.

EIGEN hits new all-time low below October 10th levels with 75% decline over two months.

EIGEN Airdrop Phase 2 is now live for reALT stakers and holders, with claims closing on December 28, 2025, 08:00 UTC.

Unlocks 36.8M EIGEN tokens ($27M, 9.9% of float) on December 1st.

EigenCompute powers SoraChain AI's privacy-safe, on-device model training that scales globally, with a live walkthrough scheduled for December 1st at 7am PT.

$23.50M worth of EIGEN tokens unlock in December as part of a broader $1.8 billion token unlock wave across multiple crypto projects.

New Verifiable Markets initiative launches featuring EigenCloud (EigenAI) alongside KaitoAI and Polymarket.

TVL drops 23% to $12.36B with Kelp DAO down 27%, while 4.4M ETH remains restaked. December EIGEN token unlock approaching.

EKOX restaking protocol built on EigenLayer completes stress tests handling 1M+ transactions and 50K+ users ahead of mainnet launch.

Cap launches as an EigenLayer AVS with slashing and redistribution features enabled. Flow Traders (EURONEXT: FLOW) becomes the first publicly traded market maker to access onchain USDC liquidity through Cap's EigenLayer infrastructure.

EigenLayer offers free EigenAI inference credits to developers building on Monad following Monad's mainnet launch.

Coinbase acquires Vector Dot Fun, a platform powered by EigenLayer infrastructure.

Partnership with Polymarket and KaitoAI launches Verifiable Mindshare Markets, with Kaito's AI running on EigenAI to verify mindshare feeds for trustless market settlement on Polymarket's prediction markets.

Partnership with Infinit Labs integrates EigenAI's verified LLM inference into Infinit's agentic DeFi platform featuring 34+ specialized agents.

On November 18th, EigenDA maintains fees of $0.04 per MB compared to Ethereum's $4.14 per MB blob fees.

ETHGas launches real-time block building technology on Ethereum mainnet with 50ms block times, powered by EigenLayer's EigenCloud infrastructure.

Infura launches DIN AVS (decentralized RPC and API marketplace) as an Actively Validated Service on EigenLayer, expanding Consensys' API data marketplace to the restaking protocol.

Partnership with Reya to develop trading-specific rollup featuring institutional-grade verifiability.

Launches EigenAI, a deterministic and verifiable AI inference service with OpenAI API compatibility, and announces 1M EigenAI token grant program for permissionless access.

EigenDA implements protocol optimization allowing validators to avoid storing separate data chunks for each quorum, reducing storage overhead.

Partnership with ConcreteXYZ connects staking infrastructure to new institutional yield strategies across XRP, BTC, and EigenLayer.

EigenCloud and LayerZero launch EigenZero, the first cryptoeconomically secured Decentralized Verifier Network (DVN), backed by $5M in ZRO tokens and available to 600+ LayerZero-integrated applications for stake-secured cross-chain verification.

EigenLayer officially rebrands to EigenCloud, marking strategic pivot away from AVSs toward verifiable AI and agentic systems with alignment on x402 and A2P standards. rsETH on Aave v3 Arbitrum surpasses $117.5M TVL and maxes out 31,680 ETH supply cap.

EigenLayer serves as partner and backer of Pi Squared's newly launched DevNet 2.0, a decentralized settlement network achieving 150K TPS with sub-100ms finality and targeting 1M TPS by 2026.

EigenCloud ranks 8th in development activity among Ethereum-based projects, down from last month's ranking according to Santiment GitHub activity data.

Partnership with Worldcoin launches focusing on verifiable gameplay.

SharpLink deploys $200M in ETH through EigenCloud infrastructure in collaboration with Consensys' Linea for verifiable AI systems. Major integrations launch including Google's Agent-to-Agent Payment Protocol, Coinbase AgentKit running on EigenAI and EigenCompute, and ElizaOS framework powering over 50,000 onchain sovereign agents.

Eigenpie launches vlEGP staking program offering 61% APR paid in $EIGEN rewards, with participants gaining governance voting power and eligibility for Season 4 $EGP airdrop.

Deterministic inference capability goes live on EigenAI and EigenCloud, enabling reproducible LLM outputs for debugging and verification purposes with users invited to test the feature.

A data partnership with the project is announced by an external party, with current Total Value Locked reported at approximately $14B.

Grant program launches offering 1M free inference tokens for hackathon participants building with verifiable inference technology (EigenAI).

SentientAGI deploys Judge Dobby AI adjudicator on EigenLayer for restaking dispute resolution, reducing settlement time from 48 hours to under 5 minutes with staked $SENT backing.

General Manager of EigenCompute participates in collaborative AMA with 499_DAO, 0G_labs, and hetu_protocol to discuss x402 technology, verifiable agents, and the agentic internet.

Ranks as the 5th biggest business on Ethereum based on total value locked (TVL).

EigenLayer ranks as the 3rd largest DeFi protocol by Total Value Locked as of November 4th, 2025, according to DefiLlama data.

Team clarifies they continue working on restaking infrastructure despite increased focus on eigencloud, and shipped trading agents implementation last week as part of visualizing 40+ documented compute use cases.

Third-party observer claims the project is pivoting away from restaking to focus exclusively on verifiable AI, no longer building restaking infrastructure.

EigenLayer partners with SentientAGI to provide restaking and verifiable compute capabilities for Sentient's decentralized intelligence network.

SharpLink deploys $200M ETH on the platform.

EigenLayer and Syndicate announce AVS Sequencer Networks—programmable, decentralized sequencer networks secured by native token staking.

x402 Starter Kit launches as open-source toolkit for building x402 APIs, deployable on EigenCompute with Coinbase facilitator option. elizaOS framework with 50K+ AI agents integrates with EigenAI and EigenCompute.

Partnership announced with Recall Labs for provably verifiable AI performance on EigenCloud, with live discussion scheduled October 30 at 11am PT.

EigenAI announces compatibility with all modern AI SDKs, providing deterministic and verifiable LLM inference capabilities with early access program available.

Partnership with Renzo Protocol announced to bring BTC onto EigenCloud for verifiable yield.

Nasdaq-listed SharpLink Gaming deploys $200M in ETH using restaking infrastructure (via ether.fi) and EigenCloud for Verifiable AI workloads, in partnership with Linea, Consensys, and Anchorage Digital custody.

EigenLayer partners with Google Cloud as launch partner for Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) and leads the x402 ecosystem on CoinGecko for AI agent micropayments using stablecoins.

Partnership announced with SpaceComputerIO for space-based computing, with EigenDA providing orbital consensus infrastructure and EigenCloud offering verifiable co-processing and cryptographic services.

MegaETH integrates EigenLayer for staking and restaking functionality, with 20% of fees allocated to MEGA holders, ahead of mainnet launch on November 15 and token generation event in Q1 2026.

Token unlock of 36.82 million tokens (12.1% of supply) scheduled for November 1, 2025.

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The restaking platform captures approximately 10% of DeFi's total value locked.