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Sreeram Kannan

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Sreeram Kannan

@sreeramkannan

Founder @EigenLabs ($10B+ AUM protocol, a16z-funded) • Building Open Agentic Networks • Maximizing Individual Agency Post AGI • Ex-Prof @UW: Information Theory.

Seattle

Joined October 2013

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Jun 23
Christian Catalini on PostAGI. Verification is the only scarce resource. Many people think it’s taste, agency or judgment. But these are just aesthetic descriptions of an underlying mathematical quantity: verifiability, the ability to verify whether an outcome meets a certain
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Apr 9, 2024
@eigencloud launches on mainnet today, taking the first steps towards our vision of building the verifiable digital commons! ----------- Ethereum is the verifiable internet. Rollup is the verifiable web server. AVS is verifiable SaaS. Eigenlayer is the verifiable cloud.
EigenCloud
@eigencloud
Apr 9, 2024
Announcing: EigenLayer ♾ EigenDA Mainnet Launch
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Sep 29, 2024
Solana vs Ethereum ————— This is the Solana take: “build a state machine that synchronizes with as low a latency as possible globally” to paraphrase @toly It is a complex Pareto point that will neither a) be as performant as nasdaq b) nor as programmable as the cloud
Kyle Samani
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Sep 29, 2024
Replying to @TrustlessState
If you want to build defi Then you need to propagate financial market data around the world to everyone who wants it in real time
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Jul 8, 2025
Today is one of the hardest days we’ve had at Eigen Labs. This morning, I shared plans for a restructuring of the company, streamlining our operations, and concentrating our efforts on building and scaling EigenCloud. Unfortunately, this means saying goodbye to brilliant
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Mar 21, 2024
Why build an Ethereum L2? ——— Some argue that “Ethereum is a great settlement layer and that’s why L2s should settle there. “ ——— Our theory (not financial advice): Anyone who wants to use and transact with ETH, the asset, needs to settle on Ethereum, which is the final ledger
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Dec 31, 2023
Origin of EigenDA (@eigen_da) - A Retrospective In this thread, I will present the story of our journey to build EigenDA from a personal vantage point. This story will lay out our longstanding interest in scaling network bandwidth as well as offer some inside anecdotes.
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Nov 14, 2024
Infura ♾️ EIGEN ———————- This is huge!!! Infura launching Decentralized Infrastructure Network on @eigencloud processing 700 Billion requests a year!!! This used to be the biggest complaint from Bitcoiners on Ethereum - RPC services are centralized. Not anymore. Ethereum
Infura
@infura_io
Nov 14, 2024
You heard it first at #Devcon2024... @DINBuild has launched as an @eigencloud AVS, marking a new chapter for connectivity and broader access to web3 across multiple blockchain networks. Check out the official announcement here: consensys.io/blog/infura-de…
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May 28, 2022
This is a post in appreciation of the Ethereum PoS protocol, in the context of recently raised questions. @VitalikButerin @dannyryan @drakefjustin @dankrad @casparschwa @zmanian @barnabemonnot
Georgios Konstantopoulos
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May 27, 2022
Replying to @gakonst
I don't think people appreciate how big of an innovation Ethereum's chain-based PoS is
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Sreeram Kannan
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Feb 22, 2024
Thrilled to have an opportunity to work closer with the exceptional team at @a16zcrypto on behalf of Eigen Labs: @alive_ @cdixon @guywuolletjr @0xMasonH @Tim_Roughgarden @Tim_Org @smc90 @eddylazzarin @jasonrosenthal @milesjennings One of the amazing characteristics of the
Ali Yahya
@alive_
Feb 22, 2024
Today, we're announcing that we're leading @eigencloud's Series B. It's exceedingly rare to come across a founder with a vision and plan that has the potential to change everything. I have come to know @sreeramkannan to be not only brilliant, but also fundamentally motivated by
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Jun 17, 2025
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
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Jun 17, 2025
The evolution is here. The age of verifiable apps has begun. Introducing EigenCloud, a platform for verifiable apps, services, and AI, built on EigenLayer, secured by the EIGEN token. ☁️ Crypto has spent a decade building trustless infrastructure. Now it's time to build on it.
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Nov 24, 2022
EigenLayer - What is it good for? This is a thread that explains the underlying elements of trust in the @eigencloud network and how they can be put together to create powerful services with customized decentralized trust models.
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Sep 12, 2024
🚀 Breaking news: All Chains Fit on EigenDA! ------------ @eigen_da mainnet is now processing 15+ MB/second (120Mbps), and we are posting ALL raw block data from 15+ chains simultaneously. ------------ L1s: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Celo, Celestia, Avalanche, BNB chain,
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Aug 26, 2024
Some predictions (20 year horizon: 2045) ---------- 1) DeFi will be bigger than Wall Street. 2) The rest of crypto will be much bigger than DeFi, just as the US economy is much bigger than Wall Street. 3) Crypto will create a huge amount of value and capture a very small
sam.frax
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Aug 26, 2024
BTC maxis don’t like DeFi. EF & Vitalik don’t like DeFi. Pretty surreal that’s the one thing they both seem to agree on. DeFi people take note.
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Mar 23, 2024
It was great talking with @EMostaque pioneer of open source AI & founder @StabilityAI and hear him talk about his vision for open / decentralized AI powering human flourishing and how it fits with our vision for coordination accelerationism at @eigencloud.
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