Thread by @sreeramkannan

Loved this thread. Particularly this question: can you be fully sovereign and still be verifiably-secure?

https://twitter.com/divine_economy/status/1557814929100603392

Shared DA (Data Availability) security unleashes the ability to create innovations at the VM layer. One particularly salient use case is Sovereign rollups which can run almost any VM on top of common DA security layer.

One design pattern which we will see a lot, is simply using the core L1 like Ethereum for censorship resistance, re-org resistance and DA, but no validating bridge (aka settlement). There may or may not be off-chain fraud / validity proofs.

This pattern will let you build arbitrary new VMs on top of a common substrate and full validating nodes of that blockchain will *fully inherit* safety and liveness from Ethereum!

This is WAY better than a new chain building its own trust network, and the new chain is verifiably-secure, while being sovereign. The difference with a rollup is that a rollup inherits full security for the *bridge* whereas this pattern does not.

One limitation of shared DA security is that it still bundles trust to flow only through the specific consensus protocol and the DA layer. It turns out this is enough for some class of modules (like innovating on VMs).

Modules which build new consensus protocols (like Nahrwahl & Tusk in Sui), new DA layers (new codes), secure multi-party systems (like Penumbra), those that require additional hardware (SGX systems like Oasis or GPUs for gaming) cannot leverage shared DA layer for security.

@eigenlayer lets you reuse trust for any distributed system that has verifiable on-chain slashing conditions. #OpenInnovation