Eigen Foundation is an independent, shareholder-less foundation that stewards governance, token programs, and grants for the EigenLayer ecosystem. Eigen Foundation's Twitter Score is 114 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #5,884 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Eigen Foundation describes itself as dedicated to accelerating the growth of the EigenLayer ecosystem, centered on a restaking mechanism that enables staked ETH to serve as cryptoeconomic security for protocols beyond Ethereum, a concept the Foundation calls the Shared Security Commons. Eigen Foundation is affiliated with EigenCloud, EigenGov, the Protocol Council, and the Grants Oversight Council.
Eigen Foundation launched the EIGEN token, based on research by Eigen Labs, positioning it as a complementary mechanism to ETH restaking for addressing intersubjective faults through intersubjective forking. The total supply of EIGEN at launch was 1,673,646,668 tokens, allocated as 45% to the community plus future inflation, 29.5% to investors, and 25.5% to early contributors. EIGEN transferability was enabled on 1 October 2024. Eigen Foundation also pledged 1% of EIGEN supply to Protocol Guild members to support Ethereum core Layer 1 research and development. For 2025, Eigen Foundation committed a spending cap of 40 million EIGEN across Open Innovation Grants and Strategic Grants.
Eigen Foundation has published 930 posts and has 33,151 followers as of August 2026. Eigen Foundation has been mentioned by 131 accounts, with 230 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Eigen Foundation include 377 founders, 134 angel investors, 200 influencers and 4 VCs. Among them are Laura Shin, David Hoffman, Robert Leshner, Tarun Chitra, H.E. Justin Sun and Foobar.