EigenLayer is a protocol foundation firm based in Seattle, Washington that eigen labs is the company behind eigenlayer, a restaking protocol on ethereum that lets users restake eth and liquid staking tokens to help secure additional services known as actively validated services (avss), including oracles, rollups, bridges and data availability layers. founded in 2021 by sreeram kannan, a former university of washington professor, the team is remote-friendly with hubs in seattle and new york. in 2025 the company shifted focus to eigencloud, a platform extending onchain and offchain verification to broader applications, and reported more than 12 billion dollars in restaked assets securing over 200 avss. eigen labs is backed by a16z crypto. They serve clients in United States. EigenLayer is listed on The Token Playbook's vetted provider registry at thetokenplaybook.com/registry/eigenlayer.