We’re excited to announce the integration of Secret’s Confidential Computing Layer with Sei, the fastest parallel blockchain. Through this integration, Secret Network will provide Sei with decentralized confidential computing (DeCC) tooling, documentation, and support. This will unlock powerful new capabilities for applications in the Sei ecosystem.
Incorporating DeCC enables features such as private voting for DAOs, encrypted storage for various applications, secure random number generation for games, confidential data linked to NFTs, sealed-bid auctions for NFTs and other assets, and encrypted order books for DeFi applications.
By integrating Secret’s Confidential Computing Layer with Sei, we’re unlocking new possibilities for one of Web3's fastest blockchains.
What is Sei?
Sei is a Layer 1 that combines the advantages of Ethereum and Solana: the dominant development standard of Ethereum with the performance of Solana. The V2 update for Sei makes it the first parallelized EVM. Serving as a new scaling approach for the Ethereum ecosystem while achieving even faster speeds than Solana. Sei launched its mainnet in 2022 and has a growing ecosystem with key teams from Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Arbitrum, and others deploying. The team is backed by Multicoin, Jump, Coinbase Ventures, and many more.
What is Decentralized Confidential Computing (DeCC)?
DeCC (Decentralized Confidential Computing) is a category of technology enabling blockchain applications to store and compute encrypted data, without having to reveal that data to the entire world. This unlocks powerful new use-cases for Web3, as most blockchain applications today are functionally limited by their requirement of all data being publicly viewable. This is in stark contrast to traditional “Web2” development, where encrypted databases and end-to-end encrypted data transfers are utilized in nearly every application.
DeCC encompasses various encryption technologies and solutions aimed at improved data protection, secure and confidential calculations, and verifiable computing. Key technologies include Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP), Multi-Party Computation (MPC), and Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE).
In Secret Network’s case, the live network runs private contracts inside a trusted execution environment on the consensus path. Isolation raises the cost for a remote attacker or a curious host. It does not defeat a physical owner of an admitted machine, and attestation does not. A later draft, which is not community-ratified, takes that private work off validators onto a measured confidential virtual machine. Intel TDX is the intended shape, and AMD SEV-SNP is a later second family. Validators in that draft are ordinary Cosmos nodes: they do not run an enclave on the consensus path and they do not hold application keys. Two-of-two custody of wrapping keys in the draft is not multi-party computation. Secret’s Confidential Computing Layer lets other blockchains pass messages toward that private execution.
Start Utilizing Confidential Computing on Sei
You can start building on Sei by checking out their developer documentation .
Next, check out Secret Network’s Confidential Computing Layer landing page to get an overview of how it works, and example use-cases for inspiration. From there you’ll find multiple links to our documentation, including the EVM developer toolkit . This page includes tutorials for applications you can build, and information on connecting your Sei application to Secret! To get development help from the Sei community, check out their Discord, and to get help from the Secret Network community, join our Discord or Telegram . You can also get in touch with the Secret Network developer relations team.
Secret x Sei
We’re excited to work with Sei and provide dedicated support to their developer ecosystem. In addition to today’s announcement, we’re also discussing future collaborations such as joint hackathon bounties and grants, developer workshops, and in-person and virtual events. We’re looking forward to seeing some groundbreaking Secret x Sei dApps built.
This is yet another meaningful step on Secret’s path to bringing decentralized confidential computing (DeCC) to all of Web3!
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