ChainCatcher news, a16z general partner Ali Yahya posted on X: "I am pleased to announce that we have invested an additional $70 million in the EigenLayer token EIGEN, with a lock-up period. Over the past few years, the EigenLayer team has pioneered a new paradigm for building verifiable and trust-neutral applications."

ChainCatcher news, according to Forbes, Eigen Labs announced the launch of the Ethereum restaking protocol EigenCloud, with a16z crypto investing $70 million through a direct purchase of EIGEN tokens, marking a follow-up investment after a16z's $100 million investment in EigenLayer in February 2024.This is a platform aimed at extending blockchain-level trust assurance to any Web2 or Web3 applications, and the use of EigenCloud will create new fee streams to support staking rewards.It is reported that the Alpha version release of EigenCloud will coincide with the performance upgrade of EigenDA, achieving a throughput of 50 MB per second on the Ethereum testnet. Additionally, EigenCloud has released a gated preview of EigenVerify, designed to adjudicate disputes in off-chain systems such as AI agents or prediction markets.

ChainCatcher message, EigenLayer stated in X that the redistribution mechanism has been launched on the testnet, and AVS can now redirect penalized funds instead of destroying them, thus supporting new use cases such as lending and insurance protocols.This feature has been running on the Holesky, Sepolia, and Hoodi testnets. The mainnet version is set to be released soon, expected to go live on the mainnet by the end of June or in July.

ChainCatcher news, Aethir has officially launched its ATH pre-staking activity on EigenLayer. Users can now stake ATH in the EigenLayer ATH vault and receive the liquid staking token EigenATH (eATH).The vault has integrated EigenLayer's AVS model, allowing computing power providers in the Aethir network to borrow ATH to operate a decentralized computing power network, with the service fees generated being proportionally distributed to eATH holders. All staked ATH will be locked for one year to ensure network stability.The redemption feature for eATH is expected to open on June 13, 2026, followed by a 30-day unlocking period.

ChainCatcher news, according to Spot On Chain monitoring, a whale has just deposited 8 million EIGEN (10.1 million USD) to Binance, potentially locking in a profit of 596,000 USD (+6.34%) after holding for only 4 days.The whale still holds 10.9 million EIGEN (13.5 million USD), with unrealized gains of 712,000 USD.Against the backdrop of a market correction, EIGEN has dropped 11.2% in the last 24 hours.

ChainCatcher message, EigenLayer is about to introduce a Redistribution mechanism. AVS (Active Validation Service) will be able to reuse penalized funds instead of destroying them, thereby unlocking new possibilities for verifiable services.This "optional upgrade" will bring a more expressive penalty mechanism and provide a better incentive structure for all participants.

ChainCatcher message, the Eigen Foundation has released the 2025 community funding strategy, which will allocate 40 million EIGEN tokens and distribute funds quarterly to promote the development of the ecosystem.Previously, the Eigen Foundation allocated 15% of the initial total supply to the EigenLayer community program, such as incentive programs and grants for users, developers, and community contributors. The Eigen Foundation will be responsible for deploying these grants for the EigenLayer community.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the Bitcoin re-staking platform Lombard has partnered with the Eigen Foundation, which governs the Ethereum re-staking protocol EigenLayer, to introduce Lombard's liquid staking token LBTC into the EigenLayer re-staking ecosystem. This collaboration allows Bitcoin holders to earn underlying yields through the Babylon protocol while participating in EigenLayer re-staking to obtain additional rewards.Lombard co-founder Jacob Phillips stated that this is the first time Bitcoin has entered the re-staking ecosystem in the form of LBTC, marking a breakthrough in Bitcoin's transition from a store of value to a yield-generating tool. Both parties also plan to strengthen the security of Bitcoin's re-collateralization and reduce design complexity through collaboration in the next six months.

ChainCatcher message, the Ethereum restaking protocol EigenLayer tweeted that its slashing mechanism has gone live on the mainnet, and the protocol committee has completed the upgrade execution.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official tweet, the Ethereum restaking protocol EigenLayer announced that the slashing mechanism will go live on the mainnet today (April 17, 2025).

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, the Ethereum restaking protocol EigenLayer announced that the slashing mechanism will go live on the mainnet on April 17. Active Validator Services (AVS) will be able to build verifiable, trustless applications; at the same time, operators and stakers will need to take responsibility. Slashing is a way for PoS protocol economic penalties to punish a node or a group of nodes for executing strategies that can be proven to differ from the given protocol specifications.

ChainCatcher news, according to Ember monitoring, a certain whale spent 32.45 million USD to buy EIGEN at its peak in October 2024, after incurring a loss of 17.19 million USD, transferred part of the position to HYPE, also buying at the peak with a loss of 5.21 million USD. The total value of the tokens currently held is approximately 10.03 million USD, with a total loss of 22.42 million USD over 5 months.

ChainCatcher news, according to Spot On Chain monitoring, the address "0xce0" has sold 780,132 EIGEN at an average price of $1.178 over the past two days, exchanging for WBTC and ETH, with a cumulative loss of approximately $2.01 million. This address purchased 770,000 EIGEN at an average price of $3.76 in October 2024, and the current EIGEN has dropped over 68% from its peak.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Binance will launch the EigenLayerWBETH staking service on March 25, 2025, at 18:00 (Beijing time).Users can subscribe and stake WBETH to earn on-chain rewards from the EigenLayer protocol. EIGEN rewards will be recorded daily and allocated to the spot account at the end of the staking period. Users can redeem their assets at any time before maturity, but early redemption will result in the loss of all accumulated rewards.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, OKX has now launched the EigenLayer series of earning activities, covering the "Learn and Earn" and airdrop reward programs, with a total prize pool of up to 142,500 Eigen tokens.During the event, users can earn rewards by learning about EigenLayer and completing designated staking tasks, while participating in the airdrop activity will also provide additional staking rewards.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the decentralized staking protocol EigenLayer, the prediction market platform Polymarket, and the decentralized oracle protocol UMA have announced a collaboration to jointly develop a next-generation oracle system. This system will be developed based on EigenLayer's infrastructure, utilizing its staking mechanism and EIGEN tokens to verify factual truths through "intersubjective consensus," a mechanism that relies on community consensus rather than purely objective data.EigenLayer's technology allows users to reuse staked ETH or liquid staking tokens to secure additional services like oracles while benefiting from the security of the Ethereum network.Polymarket is currently using UMA's optimistic oracle system for market settlements, having successfully processed over 10,000 prediction markets, the vast majority of which have not been disputed. This collaborative project is still in the research and development phase, and specific technical architecture and launch timelines have not yet been disclosed.

ChainCatcher news, EigenLayer announces the redefinition of AVS (Active Verification Service) as "Autonomous Verifiable Service".EigenLayer stated that when it first introduced the concept of Active Verification Service (AVS) in February 2023, it intended to describe how EigenLayer ensures the correctness and security of services built in a decentralized environment. Currently, there is a better way to describe what AVS represents; "active verification" describes how these services are continuously monitored and verified to ensure they are functioning properly. The two key features of the autonomous verifiable framework are: autonomy and verification. The combination of autonomy and verifiability will be EigenLayer's uniqueness.EigenLayer further added that its implementation has no technical changes, but is simply an improvement in terminology to better reflect the potential of these services.

ChainCatcher news, XION announces integration with EigenLayer to drive the next generation of consumer applications accessing Active Verification Services (AVS). Developers on XION can now leverage a suite of tools, including zkTLS, provers, and co-processors, to build innovative applications.According to RootData, XION is a Layer 1 blockchain designed specifically for consumer applications, providing a tailored seamless user experience for everyday users. Through its innovative Chain Abstraction infrastructure, XION simplifies complex crypto interactions and offers features such as protocol-level account abstraction, gasless transactions, signature abstraction, cross-device usage, and fiat pricing.