RPC providers are a centralization pain point for ethereum. Sic. Tornadocash censorship, mev and payment for orderflow resulting in users being front/back run and loosing out.
Incentives for running ETH rpcs are non-existent even though theyre the main entry point for users to interface with onchain. Heavy centralization towards MM default/infura/consensys or perhaps paradigm.

Goals: Incentivize independent smaller RPC providers. Incentivize LST protocols and small/solo stakers to offer public RPCs to users. Diversify RPC landscape. Reduce payment for order flow and mev capture at main centralization points like infura/metamask default RPC. Reduce total network censorship. Decentralize RPC providers geographically vs current centralization with infura arch running in US.

Steps/overview

• Rpc operator purchases token (mockERC20 here, ref RPCOPToken)
• RPC operator signs up via registry contract (provided by eigenlayer) by running make cli-setup-operator using their RPCOPToken as a stake and their default rpc uri.
• Task generator in aggregator.go runs offchain, creating tasks to check RPC ping response times/censorship status.
• Validators that opt into this AVS run operator.go from geographically distinct locations
• Consume Task stream generated by aggregator.go. Generate response times from RPC URI in task
• Aggregator aggregates responses
• RPC operators are incentivized and awarded tokens (MockERC20/RPCOPToken here, same as used to sign up/register for the service
• RPC operators with prolonged downtime or heavy censoring or incorrect responses have stakes slashed (TODO/not impl)

• combines rpc infra and eigenlayer avs for net positive economic incentives
• built using the eigenlayer Incredible Squaring AVS demo code
• Go lang, offchain aggregator and operator
• onchain registry contracts from eigenlayer; aggregate and task service manager
• tested via go test, forge test, and anvil
• Partner targets : Nethermind, L2s that may introduce more RPCs/MEV