Witness Chain: DePIN coordination and rollup watchtowers on EigenLayer
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Explains Witness Chain as an EigenLayer AVS for DePIN coordination using Proof of Location, plus its Rollup Watchtower Network offering decentralized verifiers for optimistic rollups. It bootstrapped over $2.5B in restaked ETH security within 10 days.
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Over $2.5B in restaked ETH in 10 days
40+ operators and 13,000+ stakers
Watchtowers address the scarcity of permissionless fraud proving on optimistic rollups
Another example of the power of @eigencloud. ♾✨
@witnesschain, the Eigenlayer AVS for DePIN coordination, bootstraps >$2.5B in crypto-economic security through restaked $ETH on @eigencloud in only 10 days! 🤯
A Coordination Layer for DePIN
The DePIN coordination layer is a unification layer that translates unverified physical attributes of DePIN networks into measured, verifiable digital proofs.
@witnesschain is the first physical state consensus protocol that enables DePIN projects to share info about their physical locations, network capacities & more.
This will allow DePINs to connect with each other, establishing an end-to-end supply chain of decentralised infrastructure.
It unlocks innovation in DePIN ecosystem by enabling new applications to be built by combining value from various DePINs.
Additionally, Proof of Location incentivizes the physical decentralization of networks, rewarding operators located across diverse geographic regions, thereby bolstering network security.
The proofs generated by @witnesschain can later be attested/challenged and consumed by different apps or DePIN chains themselves to build new products and services.
Rollup Watchtower Network
The Rollup Watchtower Network serves as @witnesschain’s in-house DePIN.
This network is a first line of defense for optimistic rollup L2s like @Optimism or @Base and enables @eigencloud operators to actively validate transactions on a rollup, ensuring any fraud is always detected.
Witness Chain Watchtowers are:
✦ Trustfree: provides Proof of Diligence of watchtowers with Ethereum trust (through EigenLayer)
✦ Decentralized: provides a Proof of Location for verifying the geolocation of watchtowers and enforcing desired physical decentralization.
✦ Programmable: provides SLA smart contracts to scale the number/stake of watchtowers and their decentralization properties with the value of vulnerable transactions.
Really recommend to DYOR here anon. DePIN is a key narrative this cycle and @Witnesschain could be core infra.
Watchtower network as a first use case could get huge adoption as it provides a strong value proposition to any optimistic rollup, especially considering that currently, actually decentralized and permissionless fraud proving / verifier roles are rare.
Watchtower provides decentralized verifiers as a service, leveraging a subset of the existing $ETH trust network. Abstracts complexity and strengthens security / decentralization.
Will keep my eyes on this one! 👀
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Day 10 on @eigencloud mainnet🤝 Gratitude to the @witnesschain community for immense love 🫶 40+ operators | 13,000+ stakers $2.5 Billion+ in Restaked ETH
Day 10 on @eigencloud mainnet🤝 Gratitude to the @witnesschain community for immense love 🫶 40+ operators | 13,000+ stakers $2.5 Billion+ in Restaked ETH
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