What is EigenLayer's awkward concept of intersubjective forking?
Eigenlayer has abstracted a new category of facts (intersubjective) that cannot be solved by previous solutions (ETH Restaking), so a new solution has been proposed.


So what exactly is a huge disagreement over an “intersubjective fact”?

Before this matter was settled, there were certainly many people who firmly believed Trump was the real 46th president, and they had no subjective intent to do evil, and neither side’s supporters could convince the other. Eigenlayer believes that the best solution to this kind of problem is to mutually fork tokens and let time test everything, because eventually one side will gradually lose legitimacy and approach zero. So: 1. In the eyes of Trump supporters (i.e., the Trump version of EIGEN), all Biden supporters’ collateral should be confiscated; 2. From the perspective of Biden supporters (i.e., the Biden version of EIGEN), all Trump supporters’ collateral should be confiscated. We all know the final result: Trump is not the 46th president in the public eye, the Trump version of EIGEN eventually goes to zero, so confiscating Biden supporters’ tokens doesn’t matter—they’re all worth 0 anyway. Conversely, Biden is the 46th president in the public eye, the Biden version of EIGEN becomes the official EIGEN, and Trump supporters whose tokens were previously confiscated have paid the price. This is the problem that intersubjective forking aims to solve. Therefore, these must use the EIGEN token, not ETH. ETH forks are too difficult, and it’s not good for ETH security. Of course, there’s also the self-interest of locking up their own token as much as possible. There’s another small detail: EIGEN uses a dual-token model.

To summarize, Eigenlayer abstracts a new type of fact (intersubjective), which cannot be solved by previous solutions (ETH Restaking), so it proposes a new solution (staking and slashing based on the EIGEN token), i.e., issuing a new work token $EIGEN.
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