In this episode, Sreeram Kannan, founder of EigenLayer, and Konstantin Lomashuk, cofounder of Lido Finance, discuss the complex world of staking in Ethereum’s post-Shanghai ecosystem.

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Show highlights:

  • how the staking ecosystem in Ethereum looks after the full completion of the Merge
  • what EigenLayer is and why it’s called that
  • whether EigenLayer’s model is more similar to Polkadot or, actually, to Ethereum Layer 2s
  • what the risks of restaking are, for both projects and users
  • how Lido is working to keep Ethereum decentralized and censorship-resistant
  • what superfluid staking is and whether it could be done on Ethereum
  • how EigenLayer incentivizes alignment between the delegator and the stakers
  • whether there’s a risk that Lido could become a governance layer for Ethereum
  • what can be done to increase staking services adoption

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