We’re excited to announce the integration of Secret’s Confidential Computing Layer with Polygon PoS, an EVM-compatible, proof-of-stake scaling solution for Ethereum, with high throughput and low costs! Through this integration, Secret Network will provide the Polygon PoS community with decentralized confidential computing (DeCC) tooling, documentation, and support. This will unlock powerful new capabilities for applications in the Polygon ecosystem!
Some examples of what this can enable are 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 Polygon PoS, we’re unlocking new possibilities for Web3’s most adopted scaling technology!
What is Polygon?
The Polygon Proof-of-Stake (PoS) network is designed to address scalability challenges within the Ethereum ecosystem. It operates as an EVM-compatible Layer-2 (L2) scaling solution for Ethereum, enhancing its throughput while also significantly bringing down gas costs, i.e., transaction fees.
Originally launched as Matic Network in June 2020, Polygon PoS has undergone numerous upgrades since its inception. Initially designed to scale Ethereum through a sidechain, a new proposal on the Polygon forum suggests upgrading Polygon PoS into a zero-knowledge (ZK)-based validium on Ethereum. If approved, Polygon PoS would adopt the execution environment of Polygon zkEVM along with a dedicated data availability layer. This new architecture would be inherently interoperable with a broader network of ZK-powered Ethereum L2s via the Agglayer.
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, confidential computing is achieved through Trusted Execution Environments, or TEEs. A TEE is a secure area of a computer processor that enables encrypted data to be computed without being revealed to the public, or even to the operator of the TEE. Secret’s Confidential Computing Layer essentially enables other blockchains to communicate with Secret’s TEEs, by way of cross-chain message passing between smart contracts.
Start Utilizing Confidential Computing on Polygon
You can start building on Polygon 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 Solana application to Secret!
To get development help from the Polygon dev community, check out their Discord, and to get help from the Secret Network community, join our Discord or Telegram. Additionally, if you want to get in touch with the Secret Network devrel team directly, you can use this form.
Secret x Polygon
We’re excited to support the Polygon ecosystem, and hope to see some awesome Secret x Polygon dApps built! In addition to today’s announcement, we’re also considering future collaborations such as joint hackathon bounties, developer workshops, and in-person and virtual events.
This is a massive step on Secret’s path to bringing decentralized confidential computing (DeCC) to all of Web3!
Join in on the discussion on the Secret Network community channels!
