by EigenLabs
Quick Fact
Built on EigenLayer, EigenDA is secured by ~200 operators and millions of restaked ETH and EIGEN.
EigenDA is a state-of-the-art data availability (DA) layer that unlocks hyperscale use cases for any rollup and is available on mainnet today. EigenDA eliminates DA bottlenecks and enables a new universe of blockchain application use cases.
The core insight of EigenDA is that the problem of DA does not require independent consensus to solve. This gives EigenDa the ability to scale linearly with its number of operators.
For EignDA, decentralization Is scaling. At launch EigenDA will provide 10 MB/s of write throughput. This is 5x greater than the nearest competitor.
EigenDA is decentralized, and made up of hundreds of operators registered in EigenLayer whose delegated stake imposes an economic cost to misbehavior. EigenDA will have billions of dollars of economic security at launch.
EigenDA's design is inspired by Danksharding, which promises to scale Ethereum-native DA beyond EIP-4844. EigenDA blob writes are registered with contracts on Ethereum, which natively subject operators to certain slashing risks. Ethereum L2s using EigenDA avoid any trust assumption on another chain's light client, which can be fooled by dishonest validator sets.
EigenDA is currently compatible with Arbitrum Orbits, OP Stack, and Polygon CDK, with support for additional stacks on the way.