According to official news, the Eigen Foundation announced the unlocking of EIGEN tokens, bringing the following possibilities:
Transferability: EIGEN can now be freely transferred, traded or staked, providing greater flexibility for participants in the entire ecosystem;
Open innovation: Unlocking enables the community and developers to actively shape the future of EigenLayer by creating new decentralized services on its flexible crypto-economic security layer. This enables the development of AVS to leverage the security of staked assets and expand potential applications in the ecosystem;
Collaboration: By encouraging developers, builders, and early adopters to use EIGEN for a variety of execution and verification tasks, the transferability of EIGEN enhances opportunities between them.