The Ekiden Platform for Confidentiality-Preserving, Trustworthy, and Performant Smart Contracts
Fan Zhang, Warren He, Raymond Cheng, Jernej Kos, Nicholas Hynes, Noah M. Johnson, Ari Juels, Andrew Miller, Dawn Xiaodong Song · IEEE Security & Privacy · 2020
Although smart contracts inherit the availability and other security assurances of the blockchain, they are impeded by lack of confidentiality and poor performance. We present Ekiden, a system that aims to close these critical gaps by combining the blockchain with trusted execution environments.