EigenLayer leads the restaking ecosystem and differentiates itself from competitors like Celestia, Story Protocol and Optimism by unifying data, compute and dispute resolution into a single trust layer, adopting a cloud-native, full-stack model rather than traditional blockchain tooling

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While EigenLayer dominates the restaking narrative, competitors like Celestia (modular data availability), Story Protocol (on-chain IP verification), and Optimism’s Cannon (fraud-proof generation) are also pushing toward verifiable infrastructure.

EigenCloud’s differentiation lies in its unification of data, compute, and dispute resolution into a single trust layer, which is an approach more akin to cloud-native full-stack development than blockchain tooling.