Take a quick look at 10 noteworthy Eigen AVS eco-projects

原文标题：The EigenLayer AVS Landscape - 10 Protocols You Should Know

原文作者：IGNAS | DEFI RESEARCH

原文来源：On Chain Times

撰文：nairolf & Thor

编译：深潮TechFlow

On April 9th, Eigenlayer announced the launch of eigenDA on mainnet, becoming the first official Active Verification Service (AVS).

introduction

EigenLayer is a project that introduces restaking. In short, it allows anyone to leverage Ethereum's existing foundation of trust and security without having to build a similar system from scratch. In practice, users of EigenLayer re-stake their ETH. Behind the scenes, they agreed to secure another system outside of Ethereum, adding some slashing conditions to their staked ETH. If they fail to secure the system, their stake will be cut or lost, even if they properly secure the Ethereum chain. The main point of EigenLayer is to securely lease Ethereum to other projects, becoming the first marketplace for decentralized trust.

An efficient market relies on the coexistence of sellers and buyers. Here, the seller is an EigenLayer user who re-stakes ETH through an operator, an entity that provides various services to the buyer. The buyer, on the other hand, is an Active Verification Service (AVS). The formal definition is any system that requires its own distributed validation semantics for validation. To put it more simply, they are projects that use EigenLayer to enhance the overall security and functionality of their network, and AVS is essentially consuming decentralized trust.

Bootstrap security has long been a challenge for new projects, limiting innovation. EigenLayer promises to change that. In the coming months, we expect a wave of AVS releases, ushering in a new era of innovation in the crypto space we love, so let's explore some of the most anticipated AVS.

1️⃣ EigenDA

EigenDA is EigenLayer's data availability solution, and it is the first AVS to go live. Just like other alternative data availability tiers such as Celestia or NearDA, rollups leveraging EigenDA will benefit from significantly lower transaction fees and higher throughput. With scalability, security, and decentralization as the main pillars, EigenDA provides a design capable of achieving 10MB/s write throughput. Ethereum, which currently only offers 83.33 KB/s, is expected to increase to 1.3 MB/s through DankSharding. EigenDA has attracted the attention of numerous projects including Mantle, Polymer, LayerN, and Movement Labs. In addition, RaaS projects like Caldera and AltLayer have seamlessly integrated EigenDA into their stacks, enabling developers to deploy rollups with EigenDA with a single click.

2️⃣ AltLayer

AltLayer has partnered with EigenLayer to develop their restaking rollups. These rollups leverage EigenLayer's re-staking mechanism to enhance decentralization, security, interoperability, and efficiency. Re-staking rollups have three unique AVS: 1) VITAL for de-neutral verification; 2) MACH for quick trading qualitative; 3) SQUAD for de-neutral sorting. These features can be integrated into existing rollups as needed. Xterio Games is the first re-staking rollup to use MACH, providing near-instant transaction confirmations, which is an indispensable feature for an AI-focused project like Xterio. With MACH, Xterio is able to ensure that the final state is reached in less than 10 seconds without compromising safety.

3️⃣ Omni

Omni is a purpose-built blockchain designed to securely connect all rollups through the use of restaking. With hundreds of different rollups, Ethereum's users and their capital are increasingly dispersed into isolated ecosystems, and this fragmentation leads to sub-optimal state and poor user experience. Omni aims to unify these rollups. With Omni, developers can program across multiple Ethereum rollups in a standalone state. Applications built with the Omni EVM can exist in all Ethereum rollups by default, allowing developers to integrate Ethereum's entire liquidity and user base into their applications without restrictions. What's particularly interesting is the way Omni leverages Eigenlayer, not only securing the Omni network with OMNI governance tokens, but also enhancing the security of its network in combination with re-staked ETH. We expect dual (and even multi-asset) staking to grow in popularity in the near future.

4️⃣ Lagrange

Lagrange is building a modular ZK coprocessor that provides trustless off-chain computation. When developers do a lot of on-chain computations, such as querying the number of Pudgy Penguins held by an address, they consume extremely high fees. With the Lagrange ZK coprocessor, this data becomes more accessible and less costly. In practice, queries are moved off the chain for execution, zk proof, and validated in the contract. This ultimately makes it possible to develop more complex, data-rich applications, such as games. Since Lagrange is designed to be chain-agnostic, but it plays an important role in cross-chain interoperability, EigenLayer's integration strengthens the security of these interactions.

5️⃣ Aligned Layer

The Aligned Layer is the first universal validation layer built for Ethereum on top of the EigenLayer. In practice, rollups send their proofs to the Aligned Layer instead of Ethereum. The Aligned Layer verifies these proofs, aggregates them into a single whole, and then sends them to Ethereum. It is worth mentioning that what is stored on Ethereum is not the proof, but the verification results performed by the Aligned Layer. This approach is cheaper, has better interoperability, and most importantly, it allows developers to use any proof system, even if it's not compatible with Ethereum. By embracing a variety of proof-of-proof systems, developers can now choose the proof-of-proof system that best suits their needs without having to worry about Ethereum's compatibility or cost, whether in terms of speed, proof size, ease of development, or security considerations. While the verification results are published to Ethereum, the actual proofs are published to the DA layer such as Celestia or eigenDA. Regarding Aligned Layer's use of EigenLayer, they will leverage the dual staking model of re-staking ETH and future governance tokens to secure the entire verification process.

6️⃣ Hyperlane

Hyperlane is the first interoperable layer that allows permissionless connection to any blockchain. Its main competitive advantage lies in its permission-free nature. Unlike those who need to fight for your chain/rollup to be supported by a cross-chain messaging protocol such as Wormhole, Hyperlane allows you to use its services permissionlessly. Specifically, this means that you only need to deploy a few smart contracts for your chain to use Hyperlane to connect your chain to other chains that use Hyperlane. Hyperlane announced the development of an EigenLayer AVS back in February 2023 to enable cross-chain application developers to securely send messages from Ethereum to other chains supported by Hyperlane.

7️⃣ Witness Chain

Witness Chain bills itself as the DePIN coordination layer that unifies the isolated DePIN economy. In practice, Witness Chain enables DePIN projects to convert unverified physical attributes such as their physical location, network capacity, and more into verified digital proofs. These proofs can later be verified/challenged and used by different applications or the DePIN chain itself to build new products and services. This will eventually allow DePINs to connect with each other, building an end-to-end decentralized and infrastructure supply chain. WitnessChain ensures the state verification process for more than 20 DePINs project coordination layers through EigenLayer Operators.

8️⃣ Eoracle

Eoracle is a modular and programmable oracle network. An oracle network is how off-chain data is brought on-chain. Whether it's NBA scores, weather data, or stock prices, blockchains can't access that data without a reliable oracle. Eoracle leverages EigenLayer to build an oracle network, or a network of people who look at the data, agree on its accuracy, and record it on-chain. Rather than building this network of people or nodes on its own, Eoracle will leverage EigenLayer's Operators to perform this task, and it will be interesting to see how this Ethereum-native solution competes with the likes of Chainlink.

9️⃣ Drosera

Drosera is an incident response protocol that leverages covert security tactics to contain and mitigate vulnerabilities. In a nutshell, Drosera acts as a security marketplace where DeFi protocols can set a "trap" or security threshold for determining whether an emergency response needs to be triggered. Once the emergency conditions are met, the operator implements the protocol's on-chain emergency measures based on the consensus mechanism. For example, Nomad may have set up a Drosera trap that was able to detect the illegal transfer of 30% of the total value locked (TVL) within a block time, thus preventing further loss of funds in the event of its $190 million asset theft.

🔟 Ethos

Ethos provides a one-stop solution for Cosmos chains, allowing them to seamlessly leverage the security of restaking ETH. There are costs associated with building a new Cosmos chain, which includes building a network of validators. Projects must convince validators and users to hold and stake the native token. To overcome this obstacle, Ethos established the Guardians Chain, which is an L1 verified by EigenLayer's Operators that acts as a security coordination layer. Projects looking to build validator sets for their L1s can hire these Guardians as virtual validators and thus benefit from Ethereum's security. You can think of this process as a diversion process: Ethos is secured by Ethereum via EigenLayer, while Ethos provides security for any Cosmos L1 that wants to avoid building its own validator set.

Conclusion

The possibilities are endless. This article only talks about the shallow goals they can achieve, and looks forward to more innovation in the future.