Make the
future trustless
with us
Privacy and security are more important than ever. We need a secure silicon foundation that we can rely on.
Trusted Execution Environments are an essential primitive for privacy, but today’s TEEs are opaque and flimsy.
Help us make open, secure and verifiable TEEs a reality.
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If you (want to) use TEEs in your system, please reach out and tell us about your use case, and threat model.
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If you design or break TEEs or secure protocols, help us map out the design space. You can act as advisor and/or grantee.
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You want to support the development of next-generation secure TEEs
Making more secure hardware a reality, in a world of convenience and shortcuts, requires the support of visionary capital. Help us help the world move forward into a trustless future.
FAQ
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Create a blueprint for what it takes to make a secure and fully open source TEE
Disburse grants to projects that contribute to #1
Nurture an active community of TEE-interested parties, in service of #1
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The Trustless TEE project is stewarded by ml_sudo and Quintus Kilbourn, and was initiated by Flashbots.
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Three grants are in moderate to advanced stages of discussion. Contact us for more details if you are interested.
We are currently fundraising so that we can disburse those grants.
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The Trustless TEE project operates under the administration of the PBS Foundation, a Swiss Foundation.
It is not a for-profit project. Funds raised are considered donations.
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We’re open to suggestions
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We see secure hardware as a powerful complement to MPC and other forms of programmable crypto. For instance, TEEs can help to protect MPC schemes against collusion attacks.
In other cases, TEEs are provide a low-overhead alternative to unprotected computation when cryptographic schemes are simply too slow or expensive.