Confidentiality Pushes Into the Compiler and Chip
Demand for on-chain confidentiality keeps moving down the stack from data to program logic and hardware, forcing a recurring trade between verifiability and the vendor trust that trusted execution environments require.
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Ethereum researchers are debating Arcanum, a proposal to make contract source code private by default using trusted execution hardware now and zero-knowledge proofs later. Moving confidentiality from transaction data down to program logic forces the core protocol to choose between vendor-trusted enclaves and the public auditability that DeFi risk assessment depends on.
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