EigenCloud: The Cloud Thesis of Crypto.
Bitcoin established verifiable money and Ethereum established verifiable finance. EigenCloud's goal is to make every digital interaction verifiable.
The core promise of EigenCloud: cloud-scale programmability with crypto-grade verifiability.
EigenCloud enables developers to build powerful applications using familiar cloud containers while maintaining blockchain-level trust guarantees. By separating token logic (executed on-chain) from app logic (executed in verifiable off-chain containers), developers can leverage the full richness of cloud infrastructure - any software library, specialized hardware, external APIs - while preserving cryptoeconomic security through the EIGEN token's novel forkability mechanism.
This architectural shift unlocks entirely new application categories: verifiable onchain AI agents, permissionless prediction markets, memecoin platforms with verifiable incentives, trustworthy media feeds, and enterprise applications with crypto-grade auditability. By massively expanding the programmability of crypto applications, EigenCloud expands the addressable market of crypto and establishes the foundation for the verifiable economy.
The Three Theses in Crypto
There is fierce debate in crypto between two theses:
a) the big chain thesis: a single big chain with composable state or rollups. Example: ETH, SOL.
b) the app chain thesis: apps will own the infra and capture all vaue. Example: HYPE, UNI, even BTC.
We are building for a third, complementary thesis:
c) the cloud thesis of crypto: a composable verifiable cloud of powerful developer services.
There was a similar discussion in early web application days between: a) shared web hosting will make it easy for anyone to build websites, b) apps will host their own servers. A third paradigm won out: c) cloud with composable services. Even the biggest web apps today like Netflix and Airbnb use the public cloud!
We believe a similar story will play out in crypto and EigenCloud is building for this future.
EigenCloud augments chains: infinite-sum games
EigenCloud is designed to be an augment for developers who choose existing chains for token settlement and token logic and augment their onchain logic with powerful off chain logic executed on EigenCloud.
Existing chains focuses the Apps <> Users flywheel (closer to an App Store) whereas EigenCloud focuses on the AVS <> Apps flywheel (similar to the AWS marketplace).
While EigenLayer is the foundation of EigenCloud and the contracts are rooted on Ethereum, EigenCloud will be able to support developers to augment their application across a wide range of chains: L2s and L1s.
EigenCloud uniquely powers Verifiable AI agents
The biggest investment sector for the cloud is AI: for example, Microsoft is investing 80B$ this year into Azure AI expecting AI to drive most cloud demand. Our thesis for EigenCloud is similar: most verifiable cloud demand will come from AI.
To power verifiable AI agents, it is necessary to have verifiable AI powering frontier AI models, as well as verifiability all across the agent stack: agent runtime, agent database / memory, computation, and tool calls.
There is no ecosystem in crypto which has the density of services to power full-stack verifiability of AI agents, as well as create a new array of powerful sovereign AI agents.
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