# EigenLayer News: The Infinite Hackathon | Jul 23rd *The initiative encourages developers building on EigenLayer and AVS at any hackathon around the world.* By [Web3 Citizen](https://paragraph.com/@web3citizenxyz) · 2024-07-23 --- TL;DR ----- * TVL watch: $16.5 * ARPA announces Mainnet * Othentic partners with Skate * Introducing Omni Academy  * AVS Spotlight: Hyperlane * **Introducing the Infinite Hackathon** * EigenLayer at Edcon 🇯🇵 * The first AVS Consumer Bazaar * * * 🌐 **Ecosystem News** --------------------- ### **TVL watch: $16b** EigenLayer maintains a total value locked (TVL) of $16b according to [DefiLlama](https://defillama.com/protocol/eigenlayer#information).  ### **ARPA AVS announces Mainnet** After launching the ARPA AVS five weeks ago, ARPA officially [announced](https://x.com/arpaofficial/status/1815434516900835650) its launch on Mainnet yesterday. It is currently working with 23 operators including [P2P.org](http://P2P.org), A41, DAIC Capital, among others, with 1.27m ETH and 41.2m EIGEN restaked. The ARPA AVS is a BLS Threshold Signature Scheme (BLS-TSS) Network, a decentralized network composed of multiple groups of nodes that securely generate BLS threshold signatures. [Read more](https://arpa.medium.com/arpa-network-avs-whitelisted-on-eigenlayer-mainnet-23-operator-partners-onboarded-ef5f75c40416) ### **Othentic partners with Skate** Following their [partnership with Solera](https://x.com/0xOthentic/status/1813556347859808676), Othentic has announced a new collaboration with Skate. Skate AVS is a pre-confirmation layer that enhances throughput capabilities and lowers transaction costs built  for the Skate infrastructure. Partnering with Othentic allows Skate to abstract away low-level AVS infrastructure and focus on building their AVS. [Read more](https://x.com/0xOthentic/status/1815693753228668980)  ### **Introducing Omni Academy**  Last week, Omni announced the launch of Omni Academy, a program to support teams leveraging Omni’s technology to bring their applications to users across all rollups. Omni will work with teams to assemble the necessary talent, provide strategic advice and help teams secure funding. [Learn more](https://x.com/OmniFDN/status/1813966290471805260) * * * **AVS Spotlight: Hyperlane** ---------------------------- [Hyperlane](https://hyperlane.xyz/) is the first universal and permissionless interoperability layer built for with modularity in mind. Hyperlane can be deployed for Layer 1, rollups or app-chain and allowing it to communicate with any other chain and ecosystem that has also deployed Hyperlane. Developers can also leverage their implementation of interchain accounts, interchain queries and warp routes to build interchain apps spanning multiple blockchains. By leveraging restaking on EigenLayer, seamless cross-rollup interoperability can be secured by restaked ETH. Hyperlane AVS is currently secured by 95 operators, 92,700+ stakers and 1.61M restaked ETH. [Learn more](https://medium.com/hyperlane/introducing-restaked-interop-powered-by-the-hyperlane-avs-e36944a22163) | [Hyperlane docs](https://docs.hyperlane.xyz/docs/intro) * * * 📰 **Community News** --------------------- ### **Introducing the Infinite Hackathon** The Infinite Hackathon encourages developers building on EigenLayer, building AVSs or rollups using EigenDA at any virtual or in-person hackathon around the world. If you are building within the EigenLayer ecosystem as part of your hackathon project, you are qualified to submit your project. Projects must be open source and submitted within 14 days of your hackathon’s deadline. [Read more](https://docs.eigenlayer.xyz/eigenlayer/resources/infinite-hackathon) ### **EigenLayer at Edcon** 🇯🇵 Edcon will be taking place from July 25th to July 30th in Tokyo. EigenLayer will be hosting a community drink on Monday, July 29th. [Register](https://x.com/0xtonkatsu/status/1815771057347072310) ### **The first AVS Consumer Bazaar** Explore Coprocessors through this session hosted by the EigenLayer team. Understand how they work and what coprocessors unlock for apps. 🔗 [Watch the episode](https://x.com/buildoneigen/status/1815394630466179279) * * * 📚 **Learn about EigenLayer** ----------------------------- Key resources, docs and guides on: [EigenLayer Hub](https://web3citizen.notion.site/EigenLayer-Hub-0d87bfebd4fe47739a4d0ef8a2e7d45f?pvs=4) & [Understanding EigenLayer](https://www.web3citizen.xyz/research/eigenlayer) **{Stuff To Check Out}** * [“Eigenlayer: verifiable cloud and digital coordination” at Modular Summit](https://x.com/modular_summit/status/1815065986028179763) * [Nuffle Fast Finality Layer - @mraltantutar](https://x.com/mraltantutar/status/1815316618635018685) * * * **See you next week** --------------------- EigenLayer News is a space to learn and stay informed about announcements and upcoming initiatives within EigenLayer. Our aim is to provide a window into what we believe is the ultimate coordination layer in crypto.  [Subscribe](http://paragraph.xyz/@web3citizenxyz) so you don’t miss our next edition. ### **About Us** About us, [@ocandocrypto](https://x.com/ocandocrypto) and [@eugenia](https://x.com/eugelikeeugenia), we’re core contributors to [web3citizen.xyz](http://web3citizen.xyz). Reach out to us on [@eigenlayernews](https://twitter.com/eigenlayernews) or [@web3citizenxyz](https://twitter.com/web3citizenxyz) - we would love to hear your feedback! --- *Originally published on [Web3 Citizen](https://paragraph.com/@web3citizenxyz/infinite-hackathon)*