# Inco

> Inco: Confidential token framework. Technology: trusted execution environments (TEEs).

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## Key facts

- Entry type: Privacy project
- Category: Confidential token framework
- Technology: Trusted execution environment (TEE)
- Website: https://www.inco.org
- Tags: TEE, confidential tokens
- Canonical page: https://www.sodalabs.xyz/privacy-hub/inco

## Overview

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.

## About Trusted execution environment

Computation runs inside an isolated hardware enclave whose contents the host operating system cannot read, under a hardware-trust assumption. Compared side by side with the other approaches at https://www.sodalabs.xyz/taxonomy.

## Sources

- [Docs](https://docs.inco.org)
- [Lightning contracts](https://github.com/Inco-fhevm)
- [Independent TEE analysis](https://blog.sip-protocol.org/blog/tee-encryption-inco-lightning/)

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