ChainCatcher message, EigenLayer announced on platform X that the Slashing testnet is officially live. The proposed protocol upgrade (ELIP-002) introduces slashing, which is a key tool for executing the economic commitments of AVS.

ChainCatcher message, according to the official announcement, the Eigen Foundation has granted 1 million EIGEN tokens to AltLayer. AltLayer stated that the tokens will be directly used to give back to the community, with the first batch of 500,000 EIGEN tokens starting to be distributed to reALT holders and stakers this week.The remaining 500,000 EIGEN tokens will be distributed when the V2 reward mechanism of Eigen Layer goes live on its mainnet in 2025.

ChainCatcher news, the Eigen Foundation has allocated 1% of the EIGEN token supply (approximately 16,736,465 EIGEN, worth over $83 million) to the Protocol Guild and has published the transaction hash. It expressed its pleasure in supporting the developers, researchers, and coordinators who are driving the thriving growth of Ethereum.

According to ChainCatcher news, in a Tuesday announcement, Wormhole is collaborating with re-staking protocol developer Nuffle Labs to develop a solution that extends EigenLayer's re-staking capabilities beyond the Ethereum ecosystem. This move aims to advance the security generated by shared staking, protecting multiple protocols and applications simultaneously. The solution leverages Wormhole's messaging architecture and Nuffle's NUFF protocol, allowing assets to be re-staked directly from any L1 or L2 blockchain without the need for asset bridging.It is reported that Nuffle Labs is a spin-off of the NEAR Foundation, developing modular blockchain technology to expand the ecosystem, including the NEAR data availability layer and the NEAR fast finality layer. The collaboration with Wormhole will make all tokens provided through the Nuffle infrastructure available for AVS built on the EigenLayer shared security framework.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, EigenLayer has launched its Rewards v2 testnet at 15:49 EST on December 14. Rewards v2 is a protocol upgrade in the EigenLayer ecosystem aimed at enhancing the flexibility, efficiency, and customization of rewards.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the Eigen Foundation has committed to allocating 1% of the EIGEN token supply to the Protocol Guild.According to the Eigen Foundation's statement, these funds will be used to support the ongoing work of the Protocol Guild, which currently has 180 members from 29 teams.

ChainCatcher message, EigenLayer has published its second EigenLayer Improvement Proposal (ELIP-002) on social media: Slashing Mechanism. This ELIP proposal introduces a slashing mechanism to the EigenLayer protocol to enhance cryptoeconomic commitments and provide tools for AVS (Active Verification Service) to innovate and reward high-quality service operators.The slashing mechanism designed in the proposal integrates two new concepts proposed by Eigen Labs: Unique Stake and Operator Sets, allowing AVS to penalize operators for failing to meet commitments (such as computational errors or liveness issues).Unique Stake ensures that each AVS has exclusive access to specific punishable stakes, reducing systemic risk. Operator Sets allow AVS to segment tasks and operators for better accountability and reward distribution.

ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain whale has withdrawn 2 million EIGEN from Binance in the past 2 days, worth approximately 9.06 million dollars.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Eigen Labs plans to launch an upgraded version of Rewards v2, aimed at bringing greater flexibility, efficiency, and customization to rewards within the EigenLayer ecosystem. The testnet will be deployed on the Holesky testnet on December 12, with the mainnet deployment scheduled for January next year.This proposed upgrade is also the first EigenLayer improvement proposal (ELIP) to utilize the EigenLayer governance process (EigenGov) recently announced by the Eigen Foundation. The Rewards v2 upgrade proposal expands the platform's reward capabilities and introduces several features: Operator-oriented rewards: AVS can reward operators based on performance or custom logic. Variable operator fees: Operators can set their own rates based on AVS, providing economic flexibility and attracting diverse participation. Batch reward claiming: Stakers and Operators can claim multiple rewards in a single transaction, thereby reducing gas costs.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the address marked as smartestmoney.eth has transferred all 1.307 million EIGEN (worth 5.09 million USD) that were bought at the beginning of the month to Binance. If sold entirely, it will yield a profit of 1.84 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to Spot On Chain monitoring, 6 hours ago, a major EIGEN claimant deposited 1,091,000 EIGEN (3.63 million USD) into Coinbase Prime.It is worth noting that these tokens were all claimed from EigenLayer through 31 wallets between October 30 and November 26.

ChainCatcher message, according to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa monitoring, the new address 0xB14...6284f has withdrawn a total of 1.16 million EIGEN from Coinbase in the past 3 hours, worth 3.91 million dollars, at an average price of 3.37 dollars.

ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, an entity named "7 Siblings" has purchased 1.06 million EIGEN in the past two days, with an average purchase price of $2.43.

ChainCatcher message, according to @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, a Blockchain Capital associated address deposited 1.43 million EIGEN into Coinbase 7 hours ago, worth 3.55 million dollars, possibly intending to sell.The address received 1.74 million EIGEN tokens from the EigenLayer Delegation Manager multi-signature address a week ago, when the token price was still 2.73 dollars (the price for this deposit was 2.48 dollars, a decrease of 10%).

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, ConsenSys' Ethereum validation node provider Infura has announced significant progress in its decentralized infrastructure network (DIN) and plans to launch as an Active Validation Service (AVS) on the Ethereum restaking platform EigenLayer.Infura DIN product lead Tom Hay announced at the Devcon 2024 conference: "By leveraging Ethereum's economic security through EigenLayer, we continue to build a permissionless Web3 infrastructure service marketplace on the steady progress of DIN." Launching DIN as an AVS through EigenLayer offers multiple advantages, including reduced development costs, increased accessibility and reliability of Web3 services, fostering a collaborative environment among providers, and simplifying the process of launching new services across Web3 gateways.The main goal of this deployment is to create a more accessible, reliable, and efficient decentralized infrastructure to support Web3 development while leveraging Ethereum's economic security. It also utilizes EigenLayer's restaking as an entry mechanism, providing staking and slashing protection without requiring projects to prematurely launch tokens.

ChainCatcher news, during the Devcon in Bangkok, the AVS Day event co-hosted by Consensys, EigenLayer, and AltLayer successfully concluded. The Hemera team received high recognition in the industry for its innovative technology, achieving first place.Hemera co-founder and Chief Growth Officer Sammi showcased the team's first comprehensive data integrity verification solution—History Transparency AVS. This solution utilizes a shared security mechanism and Account-Centric Indexing technology to provide a reliable and verifiable data processing (ETL) layer for AI, machine learning, and other data-intensive applications, ensuring end-to-end data integrity. This innovation not only enhances the reliability of data verification but also brings unprecedented transparency and trust to blockchain applications.Hemera AVS is set to officially launch soon, and will provide a programmable and verifiable data layer for the blockchain ecosystem, offering solid support for developers to create higher quality decentralized applications.

ChainCatcher news, MegaETH will jointly host World Computer Day with EigenLayer and Succinct on November 10th from 12:00 PM to 08:00 PM (GMT+7) in Bangkok.It is reported that World Computer Day will discuss the following topics:Is cryptocurrency a world computer or a fancy casino?How fast should global computers be by 2030?Should the world computer run on Raspberry Pi?Is the world computer controlled by humans or artificial intelligence?Is the world computer inevitable?

ChainCatcher news, Spot On Chain monitoring shows that Winslow Strong, head of the Qualia Research Institute, sold all of his 704,902 EIGEN tokens through Amber Group and CowSwap 10 hours ago, worth approximately $2.23 million.It is reported that most of these tokens came from the allocation when EigenLayer launched on October 1. In addition, Strong also sold a small amount of two other restaked tokens, SWELL and ETHFI.

ChainCatcher message, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain Alpha trader "smartestmoney.eth" withdrew 500,000 EIGEN from Binance 30 minutes ago, worth 1.23 million dollars.