Robert Drost was named the inaugural CEO of the Eigen Foundation, an independent non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the growth and decentralization of the EigenLayer ecosystem.

The Eigen Foundation, under Drost's leadership, announced and began the second EIGEN airdrop, known as the 'StakeDrop', to distribute tokens to ecosystem participants.

Oversaw the launch of the EigenLayer slashing testnet, a critical step toward the mainnet implementation of the protocol's full feature set and security model.