Question 1

What is EigenCloud (EIGEN)?

Accepted Answer

EigenCloud is a developer platform built on EigenLayer that provides infrastructure for applications and services that require verifiable off-chain computation, data and execution. It combines EigenLayer's staking infrastructure with services including EigenDA for data availability, EigenVerify for verification and dispute resolution and EigenCompute for off-chain execution. EigenCloud also supports third-party Autonomous Verifiable Services (AVSs), which can use staked assets to provide economic security for their operations.

EIGEN is the native work token used within the EigenLayer and EigenCloud ecosystem. It is designed to complement ETH restaking by providing economic security for services where faults may not always be provable through on-chain computation alone. EIGEN can be staked and allocated to services, creating an economic cost for operators that fail to meet the conditions they have agreed to follow.

The token also introduces a model for addressing intersubjective faults. These are failures where participants can broadly agree that an operator acted incorrectly even when the fault cannot be established through an objective on-chain proof. The EIGEN design uses an application-layer forking mechanism intended to address these cases without requiring Ethereum itself to fork.

Question 2

What is EigenCloud (EIGEN) used for?

Accepted Answer

EIGEN is used as an economic security asset for services operating through EigenLayer and EigenCloud.

* **Economic Security:** EIGEN can be staked and allocated to services that require economic backing for activities such as off-chain computation, verification, data availability and other infrastructure functions.

* **Pooled Security:** EigenLayer allows multiple services to draw security from a shared pool of staked and restaked assets rather than relying only on their own native tokens. This allows operators and stakers to provide economic security across different services within the ecosystem.

* **Operator Participation:** EIGEN holders can stake their tokens and delegate them to operators that perform work for supported services. Operators can allocate stake to specific services or Operator Sets and may receive rewards for meeting the conditions defined by those services.

* **Marketplace for Security:** Services can compete for economic security by defining rewards, participation requirements and slashing conditions. Operators and stakers can choose which services to support based on their respective requirements, rewards and risks.

* **Slashing and Accountability:** Services can define conditions that participating operators must follow. Where slashing is enabled, allocated stake can be penalised when operators fail to meet predefined requirements, creating an economic cost for incorrect behaviour.

* **Intersubjective Security:** EIGEN is designed to support services where some faults cannot be proved entirely through on-chain computation. Its intersubjective security model provides a mechanism for addressing behaviour that participants can broadly identify as incorrect without requiring a fork of Ethereum.

Stakers and operators can also receive EIGEN rewards for participating in eligible services, linking token incentives to the provision of infrastructure and economic security across the ecosystem.

Question 3

Who created EigenCloud (EIGEN)?

Accepted Answer

EigenCloud and the technology behind the EIGEN token were developed by Eigen Labs. Eigen Labs was founded by Sreeram Kannan, who serves as its Founder and CEO. Kannan previously worked as a professor at the University of Washington and led the university's blockchain research laboratory.

Eigen Labs originally developed EigenLayer, with its restaking functionality launching on Ethereum mainnet in 2023. The EIGEN token was introduced in 2024 and was designed to extend EigenLayer's economic security model beyond the use of restaked ETH.

The Eigen Foundation was established as an independent organisation supporting the EigenLayer ecosystem and is involved in activities related to the EIGEN token and ecosystem development.

Eigen Labs launched EigenCloud in June 2025 as a platform built on top of EigenLayer, combining EigenLayer's staking infrastructure with EigenDA, EigenVerify, EigenCompute and third-party Autonomous Verifiable Services. EIGEN provides part of the economic security used by services operating through this infrastructure.

#	Instrument	Exchange	Benchmark Score	Price	24h Change	24h Volume	24h Trades	24h Open	24h High
1	EIGEN-USDT EIGENUSDT	binance	AA	0.1986USDT	0.86%	6,511,365.71EIGEN	15,045	0.1969USDT	0.2053USDT
2	EIGEN-TRY EIGENTRY	binance	AA	9.86TRY	0.76%	3,468,849.89EIGEN	2,954	9.79TRY	10.20TRY
3	EIGEN-USDT EIGEN_USDT	whitebit	BB	0.1985USDT	0.92%	3,164,276.99EIGEN	11,486	0.1967USDT	0.2054USDT
4	EIGEN-USDT EIGENUSDT	bybit	A	0.1986USDT	0.86%	2,720,109.50EIGEN	7,243	0.1969USDT	0.2052USDT
5	EIGEN-USDT EIGEN-USDT	okex	A	0.1988USDT	0.91%	1,808,120.91EIGEN	3,140	0.1970USDT	0.2052USDT
6	EIGEN-USDC EIGEN_USDC	whitebit	BB	0.1980USDC	0.76%	1,213,182.03EIGEN	1,498	0.1965USDC	0.2049USDC
7	EIGEN-USD EIGEN-USD	coinbase	AA	0.1998USD	1.58%	792,084.07EIGEN	1,305	0.1967USD	0.2040USD
8	EIGEN-EUR EIGEN_EUR	whitebit	BB	0.1774EUR	1.14%	787,690.01EIGEN	1,290	0.1754EUR	0.1829EUR
9	EIGEN-USDC EIGENUSDC	binance	AA	0.1981USDC	0.81%	250,160.99EIGEN	703	0.1965USDC	0.2050USDC
10	EIGEN-USDT EIGEN_USDT	gateio	A	0.1988USDT	1.02%	224,765.95EIGEN	1,265	0.1968USDT	0.2052USDT
11	EIGEN-EUR EIGEN-EUR	okex	A	0.1762EUR	0.17%	212,815.96EIGEN	84	0.1759EUR	0.1830EUR
12	EIGEN-USD EIGENUSD	kraken	AA	0.1984USD	0.76%	198,081.05EIGEN	802	0.1969USD	0.2044USD
13	EIGEN-USDT EIGEN-USDT	kucoin	BB	0.1989USDT	1.07%	147,786.86EIGEN	432	0.1968USDT	0.2039USDT
14	EIGEN-USDT EIGENUSDT_SPBL	bitget	BB	0.1986USDT	0.91%	151,254.10EIGEN	542	0.1968USDT	0.2044USDT
15	EIGEN-FDUSD EIGENFDUSD	binance	AA	0.1991FDUSD	0.81%	80,022.22EIGEN	335	0.1975FDUSD	0.2046FDUSD
16	EIGEN-USDC EIGEN-USDC	okex	A	0.1985USDC	0.66%	45,166.12EIGEN	164	0.1971USDC	0.2039USDC
17	EIGEN-EUR EIGENEUR	kraken	AA	0.1771EUR	0.68%	34,158.13EIGEN	240	0.1759EUR	0.1817EUR
18	EIGEN-TRY EIGEN-TRY	okex	A	9.89TRY	0.82%	31,133.64EIGEN	48	9.81TRY	10.10TRY
19	EIGEN-USDC EIGENUSDC	bybit	A	0.1981USDC	0.46%	14,108.00EIGEN	78	0.1971USDC	0.2034USDC
20	EIGEN-USD EIGEN_USD	cryptodotcom	AA	0.1999USD	0.45%	4,827.70EIGEN	45	0.1990USD	0.2039USD
21	EIGEN-USD eigenusd	bitstamp	AA	0.2028USD	0.00%	0EIGEN	0	0.2028USD	0.2028USD
22	EIGEN-EUR eigeneur	bitstamp	AA	0.1806EUR	0.00%	0EIGEN	0	0.1806EUR	0.1806EUR
23	EIGEN-USDT EIGENUSDT	cexio	BB	0.1978USDT	-2.54%	128.99EIGEN	1	0.2030USDT	0.2030USDT
24	EIGEN-USD EIGENUSD	cexio	BB	0.1974USD	-0.01%	88.26EIGEN	1	0.1975USD	0.1975USD
25	EIGEN-USDT eigenusdt	huobipro	C	0.1985USDT	0.71%	5,848,159.74EIGEN	20,158	0.1971USDT	0.2044USDT
26	EIGEN-USDT eigen_usdt	lbank	C	0.1986USDT	0.97%	3,228,210.35EIGEN	1,789	0.1967USDT	0.2052USDT
27	EIGEN-USDT sEIGENUSDT	phemex	C	0.1982USDT	0.56%	2,640,454.30EIGEN	5,705	0.1971USDT	0.2056USDT
28	EIGEN-USDT EIGENUSDT	bitrue	D	0.1986USDT	0.97%	1,817,933.70EIGEN	38,111	0.1968USDT	0.2054USDT
29	EIGEN-TRY EIGENTRY	btcturk	E	9.87TRY	1.02%	1,366,864.70EIGEN	734	9.77TRY	10.19TRY
30	EIGEN-USDT EIGENUSDT	toobit	C	0.1986USDT	0.91%	971,796.27EIGEN	8,067	0.1968USDT	0.2052USDT
31	EIGEN-USDT eigen_usdt	xtpub	-	0.1990USDT	1.02%	649,607.44EIGEN	3,688	0.1970USDT	0.2050USDT
32	EIGEN-USDT EIGEN_USDT	coinw	-	0.1989USDT	1.07%	518,511.52EIGEN	1,314	0.1968USDT	0.2052USDT
33	EIGEN-USDT eigen_usdt	digifinex	D	0.1986USDT	0.97%	451,683.56EIGEN	1,521	0.1968USDT	0.2053USDT
34	EIGEN-EUR EIGEN-EUR	bitvavo	B	0.1766EUR	0.60%	431,079.57EIGEN	334	0.1756EUR	0.1825EUR
35	EIGEN-USDT EIGENUSDT	mexc	C	0.1986USDT	0.97%	421,261.83EIGEN	3,674	0.1968USDT	0.2050USDT
36	EIGEN-USDT EIGEN_USDT	bitunix	C	0.1986USDT	0.86%	398,011.86EIGEN	7,766	0.1969USDT	0.2053USDT
37	EIGEN-USDT EIGEN-USDT	bingx	D	0.1986USDT	0.91%	375,004.81EIGEN	8,699	0.1968USDT	0.2047USDT
38	EIGEN-KRW EIGEN_KRW	bithumbkorea	-	265.00KRW	0.38%	368,122.84EIGEN	180	264.00KRW	274.00KRW
39	EIGEN-USDC EIGENUSDC	mexc	C	0.1986USDC	0.97%	265,285.73EIGEN	2,989	0.1967USDC	0.2049USDC
40	EIGEN-USDT EIGEN-USDT	bigone	-	0.1990USDT	0.00%	236,631.58EIGEN	1,875	0.1990USDT	0.2039USDT
41	EIGEN-USD EIGEN-USD	btse	-	0.1983USD	0.74%	182,391.12EIGEN	13,777	0.1968USD	0.2050USD
42	EIGEN-USDT EIGENUSDT	btcturk	E	0.1983USDT	0.56%	134,223.70EIGEN	67	0.1971USDT	0.2049USDT
43	EIGEN-USDT EIGEN_USDT	bydfi	-	0.1990USDT	1.02%	76,541.99EIGEN	2,908	0.1970USDT	0.2050USDT
44	EIGEN-USDT EIGEN-USDT	btse	-	0.1985USDT	0.92%	49,478.55EIGEN	3,221	0.1966USDT	0.2050USDT
45	EIGEN-EUR EIGENEUR	bit2me	B	0.1771EUR	0.68%	34,158.13EIGEN	240	0.1759EUR	0.1817EUR
46	EIGEN-USDT EIGEN_USDT	cryptology	D	0.1987USDT	0.94%	33,955.97EIGEN	1,340	0.1968USDT	0.2043USDT
47	EIGEN-IDR eigenidr	indodax	E	3,608.00IDR	-2.62%	16,509.41EIGEN	96	3,705.00IDR	3,971.00IDR
48	EIGEN-THB THB_EIGEN	bitkub	C	6.71THB	1.90%	16,367.71EIGEN	28	6.58THB	6.85THB
49	EIGEN-USDC EIGEN-USDC	btse	-	0.1982USDC	0.95%	2,778.94EIGEN	653	0.1963USDC	0.2045USDC
50	EIGEN-INR EIGENINR	coindcx	-	20.51INR	1.92%	1,239.00EIGEN	11	20.12INR	20.69INR