After months of anticipation, EigenLayer has officially launched EigenCloud, a new platform that enables developers to build apps with verifiability baked in.
Revealed on June 17, the project takes aim at one of crypto’s biggest challenges: how to bring trustless guarantees to offchain systems.
With this release, EigenLayer moves from Ethereum’s restaking layer into a broader developer toolkit meant for building everything from secure AI models to onchain games, all powered by its native EIGEN token.
Web2 meets web3 with onchain-grade guarantees
At its core, EigenCloud bundles three major components: EigenDA for data availability, EigenVerify for resolving disputes, and EigenCompute for executing workloads.
It seems to be not just an infrastructure play but also an attempt to blur the line between traditional cloud services and decentralized systems.
The platform allows developers to plug offchain services into blockchain-grade trust environments, targeting industries like healthcare, finance, and artificial intelligence.
EigenCloud is backed by a fresh $70 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm, a16z, adding to its prior $150 million in earlier rounds.
The EIGEN token not only secures the network via restaking but also opens the door to new crypto-economic models. Stakers may earn fees based on usage of these services, further aligning incentives between infrastructure providers and builders.
Roadmap, ecosystem, and what's next
Alongside the launch, Eigen Labs is rolling out an alpha release with upgrades to EigenDA and a preview of EigenVerify. A public roadmap outlines plans to expand tooling, add slashing via token forkability, and simplify deployments of AVSs (Actively Validated Services).
With over 200 AVSs in the pipeline and $11.7 billion currently locked, EigenLayer says it’s the fastest-growing dev ecosystem in crypto today.
According to Eigen Labs CEO Sreeram Kannan, this is the start of a broader shift. “We’re bringing programmability to verifiability,” he said, pointing to a future where developers can build “any application, in any industry” with provable trust baked in.
As Joe Lubin of Consensys added, EigenCloud’s release pushes the boundaries of what Ethereum infrastructure can do, and it may just be the thing that onboards the next wave of apps.
