Eigen Labs is a research and development organization founded by Sreeram Kannan to build the EigenLayer protocol, a restaking system that allows staked ETH to extend security to other protocols. Eigen Labs's Twitter Score is 60 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #14,532 (top 5%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Eigen Labs was founded in 2021 and serves as the core development team behind EigenLayer, EigenDA, and EigenCloud. EigenCloud is a developer platform built atop EigenLayer and powered by the EIGEN token, which was launched by the Eigen Foundation based on research from Eigen Labs. In July 2025, Eigen Labs reduced its workforce by 25%, cutting 29 positions, as part of a reorganization focused on EigenCloud. Eigen Labs also stated in August 2024 that a policy change introduced in May of that year would prevent employees from receiving future airdrops from ecosystem projects.
Eigen Labs has attracted backing from a broad set of investors, including Andreessen Horowitz / a16z crypto, Blockchain Capital, Polychain Capital, Ethereal Ventures, Electric Capital, Hack VC, Finality Capital Partners, Coinbase Ventures, Figment Capital, dao5, Robot Ventures, and P2P Validator. Eigen Labs has published 696 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 135 accounts a total of 262 times.
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The accounts that follow Eigen Labs include 222 founders, 77 angel investors, 80 influencers and 7 VCs, among them Laura Shin, Tarun Chitra, H.E. Justin Sun, Darren Lau, Andy and Spencer Noon.