What if you could collaborate on AI projects, run complex models, fine-tune them, and even monetize both your models and data – all while retaining full control and ensuring confidentiality? It might sound impossible, especially when involving multiple participants you don’t need to trust – or even know.
In his article, “Web3 plus Confidential Computing,” Mike Bursell, Executive Director of the Confidential Computing Consortium, delves into this challenge: “It turns out that allowing the creation of trust relationships between mutually un-trusting parties is extremely complex, but one way that this can be done is what we will now address.“
Mike explores the synergy of Confidential Computing, blockchain, and smart contracts, showcasing Super Protocol as a real-world implementation of this vision. He explains: “Central to Super Protocol’s approach are two aspects: that it is open source, and that remote attestation is required to allow the client to have sufficient assurance of the system’s security. Smart contracts – themselves open source – enable resources from various actors to be combined into an offer placed on the blockchain, ready for execution by anyone with access and sufficient resources. What makes this approach Web3 is that none of these actors needs to be connected contractually.”
This approach enables “the network effect… building huge numbers of interconnected Web3 agents and applications, operating with the benefits of integrity and confidentiality offered by Confidential Computing, and backed up by remote attestation.“ Unlike Web2 ecosystems, often criticized for “their fragility and lack of flexibility (not to mention the problems of securing them in the first place),” here is an opportunity to create “complex, flexible, and robust ecosystems where decentralized agents and applications can collaborate, with privacy controls designed in and clearly defined security assurances and policies.“
As Mike aptly puts it: “Technologies, when combined, sometimes yield fascinating – and commercially exciting – results.“
Explore the full article to dive into the basics, the synergy of these technologies, and the technical details of how Super Protocol is turning this vision into reality.
