Privacy projectSecret Network: Confidential L1. Technology: trusted execution environments (TEEs).
Secret has run encrypted smart contracts in production longer than anyone else, since 2020, and a good deal of what the industry knows about operating TEE-based privacy at real scale it learned here first. The network has also done that learning in the open: the 2022 consensus-seed research and a June 2026 bridge exploit that minted 4.7 million dollars are both publicly documented, the second with a post-mortem on Secret's own forum. It is now planning a move from Cosmos to Arbitrum, closer to where EVM liquidity and integrations already sit.
Key facts
- Entry type
- Privacy project
- Category
- Confidential L1
- Technology
- Trusted execution environment (TEE)
- Website
- scrt.network
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.