# AVS Screening - Lagrange State Committees

## Lagrange State Committees

Contract address: 0x35F4f28A8d3Ff20EEd10e087e8F96Ea2641E6AA2
Website: https://www.lagrange.dev/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lagrangedev
Docs: https://lagrange-labs.gitbook.io/lagrange-v2-1
Blog: https://www.lagrange.dev/blog
AVS Category: coprocessor
ETH Restaked: 2,372,462
Total Operators: 62
Total restakers: 102,965
Competitors: Brevis coChain, Automata AVS
Mainnet Date: April 10th, 2024
Economic Security wanted: $1 Million ETH
Operator limits: None
Points program: N/A

### AVS Description

The protocol enables submission of aggregated proofs of multi-chain states, verified in a non-interactive manner by other chains. Lagrange State Committees form part of a decentralized network system designed to enhance blockchain interoperability and security, using zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs. The State Committees are comprised of unaffiliated nodes powered by Lagrange’s ZK Coprocessor technology, which are tasked with attesting to the finality of blocks within optimistic rollups. Unlike systems with a capped number of nodes (e.g. Ethereum's Sync Committees), Lagrange State Committees can support an unlimited number of nodes, allowing for a super-linear increase in economic security that can dynamically scale with the protocol.

### Unique Selling Proposition

dApps requiring interoperability across different blockchain networks may benefit from Lagrange's shared security model, which reduces the fragmentation and vulnerability inherent in traditional cross-chain communication protocols. Operational overheads can be reduced by outsourcing security verification to Lagrange's committees. Scalability opportunities are secured through the feature for adding support for new rollups without expanding the node network. At the same time the AVS is designed to improve the speed of transaction finalization, particularly beneficial for optimistic rollups, by reducing latency and enabling quicker cross-chain message transfer.

Initially compatible with all EVM-compatible blockchains (L1s,L2s, rollups), the protocol plans to expand support to non-EVM chains like Solana, Sui, Aptos, and Cosmos SDK-based chains.

### Economic Model

N/A

### Builders

For gathering information about Lagrange, we relied mainly on LinkedIn due to the fact that company domains do not share much about the people behind the project. The team is composed of experts in cryptography, engineering and computer science.

[Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/i20h/) (Founder & CEO)
[Charalampos Papamanthou](https://www.linkedin.com/in/charalampos-papamanthou-5b81074/) (Chief Scientist)
[Kashish Shah](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kashishshah22/) (Founding Engineer)

### Backers

Investors: Founders Fund, Archetype Ventures, 1kx, Maven11, Fenbushi Capital, Volt Capital, CMT Digital, Mantle Ecosystem Fund, various angels.
Partnerships: EigenLayer, Base, Frax Finance, Mantle Network, Omni Network, AltLayer, Ether.fi, Renzo, Swell, Puffer.fi and Kelp DAO.

### Centralization

Contract owner is unidentified EOA: https://etherscan.io/txs?a=0xb9d7c1ced67302967ce9553057589632bd99a998

### Security

Three audits by Secure3 have been carried out:

https://github.com/Lagrange-Labs/lagrange-contracts/blob/develop/audits/Lagrange_State_Committee_Secure3_Audit_Report-1.pdf - 3 Medium, 0 Critical issues evaluated

https://github.com/Lagrange-Labs/lagrange-contracts/blob/develop/audits/Lagrange_Update_Secure3_Audit_Report-2.pdf - 1 Medium, 0 Critical issues evaluated

https://github.com/Lagrange-Labs/lagrange-contracts/blob/develop/audits/Lagrange_Update_Secure3_Audit_Report-3.pdf - all issues solved

### Maturity

Mainnet date: April 10th, 2024
Holesky date: N/A

Lagrange's [contracts depository](https://github.com/Lagrange-Labs/lagrange-contracts), active since April 30, 2023, showcases a small average number of commits (up to five a week) with observed periods of inactivity. A refresh in activity coincides with the AVS mainnet launch.

### Regulatory Complexity

Low risk of legal challenges is anticipated for the project, rooted in its infrastructural nature, which positions it to be regulatory agnostic.

### Risk Considerations

- The control is centralised in EOA, allegedly controlled by non-doxxed individual(s);
- The economic model is unclear, restakers do not know on what reward mechanism (single or dual token model) to rely;