ChainCatcher news, Eigen Labs has announced the appointment of former Rio Network co-founder Alan Curtis as the new Chief Operating Officer (COO). Alan Curtis's responsibilities will include driving the growth of restaking scale across the industry, enhancing the readability of the EigenLayer economic model, and ensuring the smooth operation of Eigen Labs.

ChainCatcher news, Eigen Labs announced on X the acquisition of the liquidity re-staking network Rio Network to accelerate its mission of creating an open and verifiable cloud. The code and intellectual property of Rio Network will be purchased separately by the Eigen Foundation and will serve as a reference implementation within the EigenLayer ecosystem to better support emerging and developing LRTs. The Rio team will soon join Eigen Labs.