Privacy projectInco: Confidential token framework. Technology: trusted execution environments (TEEs).
Inco ships Lightning, a confidential token framework that gives ERC-20 style assets encrypted balances and transfers while keeping the developer experience close to ordinary Solidity, which is the part most confidentiality stacks make hard. That is what makes it usable today: performance and latency that feel normal, because the encrypted state is held inside Intel trusted hardware. A fully homomorphic encryption tier sits on the roadmap for teams that want the guarantee to rest on mathematics rather than on a hardware vendor. It is pre-token, and independent analyses of the trusted-hardware model are worth reading alongside the docs.
Key facts
- Entry type
- Privacy project
- Category
- Confidential token framework
- Technology
- Trusted execution environment (TEE)
- Website
- www.inco.org
What is trusted execution environment?
Computation runs inside an isolated hardware enclave whose contents the host operating system cannot read, under a hardware-trust assumption.
How it compares with the other approaches on latency, trust assumptions and fit is set out, with sources, in the technology taxonomy.
Private by design.
See how confidential transactions work on the networks you already use.