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What is EigenCloud (EIGEN)?

EigenCloud is a decentralised cloud platform built on EigenLayer, designed to provide verifiable offchain compute, data, AI, and identity services for both Web2 and Web3 applications. At the heart of this system is the EIGEN token, which is used to stake and secure cloud services through EigenLayer’s restaking model.

Rather than operating as a traditional L1 or L2, EigenCloud transforms services like data availability, AI inference, container execution, and dispute resolution into programmable cloud primitives—EigenDA, EigenAI, EigenCompute, and EigenVerify. These services offer Ethereum-grade trust for offchain tasks, turning verifiability itself into a cloud service.

The project aims to solve the mismatch between centralised, scalable but opaque Web2 cloud infrastructure and blockchain’s transparent but limited environment by creating a crypto-secured, programmable alternative to AWS, where developers can build complex applications with embedded trust guarantees.

How does EigenCloud (EIGEN) work?

EigenCloud leverages Ethereum’s Proof of Stake for base-layer settlement and inherits the EigenLayer restaking model, allowing operators to secure additional offchain services (Autonomous Verifiable Services or AVSs) by restaking ETH or EIGEN.

Developers interact with EigenCloud primitives:

• EigenDA for high-throughput data availability
• EigenAI for deterministic, verifiable AI inference
• EigenCompute for containerized workload execution
• EigenVerify for onchain dispute resolution

These services operate in tandem with Ethereum, where AVSs submit cryptographic proofs of execution, and the EIGEN token acts as the economic security layer. Misbehaving nodes can be penalized via slashing and forkability mechanisms, extending blockchain-grade guarantees to offchain tasks.

Algorithms and design elements include:

• Deterministic execution and request hashing for reproducible AI results
• Data sampling and batching in EigenDA to reach tens of MB/s
• Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and a roadmap toward zk-based verification in EigenCompute
• A smart contract suite on Ethereum for staking, AVS registration, slashing, and payments

EigenCloud doesn’t rely on a traditional whitepaper but provides in-depth documentation and research articles explaining its architecture and cryptoeconomic model.

What are the potential use cases for EigenCloud (EIGEN)?

EigenCloud powers applications where verifiability and trust are essential but computation or data must happen offchain. Use cases include:

• AI and agentic systems – verifiable LLM inference and execution
• DeFi and trading infrastructure – high-value, auditable bots and oracle systems
• Healthcare and regulated industries – tamper-proof processing of sensitive data
• Content/media platforms – provenance tracking and authenticity of digital records
• Rollups and L2s – scalable data availability via EigenDA

Developers can deploy LLM agents, build apps that rely on trusted container execution, or anchor massive data batches into Ethereum for security—all backed by EIGEN stake. Payment integration with protocols like x402 (from Coinbase) adds real-world usability for AI agent payments and machine-to-machine commerce.

Notable ecosystem integrations include:

• EigenLayer AVS network
• Backers like a16z, who purchased $70M of EIGEN to support verifiable infrastructure
• Collaborations with Google around crypto-agent workflows
• Rollup and AI infra partnerships, reflecting strong demand for verifiable compute and data services

What is the history of EigenCloud (EIGEN)?

EigenCloud is a product of Eigen Labs, the team behind EigenLayer, founded by Sreeram Kannan and a team of researchers and engineers focused on Ethereum restaking and scalable trust systems.

After EigenLayer introduced restaking, EigenCloud was conceived as a developer-facing platform that packages those guarantees into programmable services, effectively becoming a “crypto-native AWS.”

Key milestones include:

• Mainnet launch of EigenLayer
• Billions of dollars in restaked ETH, securing dozens of AVSs
• Release of EigenDA, EigenAI, EigenVerify, and EigenCompute
• Over $17B in TVL and more than $128M in rewards distributed
• High-throughput performance upgrades, with EigenDA targeting 50–100 MB/s
• Billions of LLM tokens served through EigenAI
• Massive token acquisition by a16z and collaborations with top infrastructure teams

Rather than forks or L1 migrations, EigenCloud evolves through modular upgrades, including zk-proof integration for compute, better throughput for data availability, and more programmable forkability logic for AVS security.

As both a technology stack and a narrative, EigenCloud represents a leap from traditional restaking into the realm of verifiable cloud computing, positioning itself as the backbone for AI, data, and compute services in the crypto-native economy.