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Ekiden: A Platform for Confidentiality-Preserving, Trustworthy, and Performant Smart Contract Execution
[article]
2019
arXiv
pre-print
Smart contracts are applications that execute on blockchains. Today they manage billions of dollars in value and motivate visionary plans for pervasive blockchain deployment. While smart contracts inherit the availability and other security assurances of blockchains, however, they are impeded by blockchains' lack of confidentiality and poor performance. We present Ekiden, a system that addresses these critical gaps by combining blockchains with Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). Ekiden
arXiv:1804.05141v6
fatcat:r3y3kq7g6jda7ag3hznfrcw45a