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Oasis: paper, then practice.

Ekiden runs a contract inside a hardware enclave and puts the result on a chain. The enclave vendor is part of the trust assumption.

Raymond Cheng, Fan Zhang, Jernej Kos, Ari Juels, Andrew Miller, Dawn Song and collaborators. 2019. Status: Design paper. Last reviewed: 1 October 2026.

  1. The paper. The Ekiden paper: smart contracts that execute inside trusted hardware, with the ledger checking attestations rather than re-executing the private code. Oasis Network is the later production system in this line. The paper is the academic statement of the approach.
  2. Smart contract.
  3. Confidential compute.

What this chain does not claim

It does not rank a network, quote a yield, or say the live client still matches the paper. The full study keeps the limits. Primary source: arXiv:1804.05141.

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