We are excited to announce that Enigma, an off-chain network solving scalable privacy for blockchains, and Aion, a platform to solve the problem of interoperability and scalability for blockchains are working towards a partnership that will help bring data and computational privacy to every blockchain.

Enigma is an off-chain peer-to-peer network that enables different parties to jointly store and run computations on data while keeping data completely private through the use of secret contracts. Connecting Aion with the Enigma secure multi party computation platform enables users and developers to process sensitive data, computation and storage from the Aion ecosystem in the off-chain Enigma network.

Through Aion’s powerful bridging protocol, which allows for transacting with multiple blockchains without involving a centralized integration mechanism, the overall accessible network of the Enigma platform will be securely enhanced. This would allow Enigma’s secret contracts — smart contracts that keep sensitive data encrypted at all times — to be available across the Aion network.

Guy Zyskind, CEO and co-founder of Enigma:

“We are excited to work with the talented team at Aion to help them achieve our shared vision of expanding blockchain scalability while preserving privacy. Aion’s protocol allows Enigma’s technology to reach more blockchains and bring us closer to realizing a truly decentralized future.”

Matthew Spoke, CEO and founder, Aion:

“Enigma is building one of the key infrastructure requirements needed for mainstream adoption and we are excited to work with such a visionary team towards this common vision.”

About Enigma

Enigma is enabling a decentralized future by solving privacy and scalability. Blockchain is a powerful technology, but today it is impractical and mostly unusable at scale — current computing capacity on blockchain is slow and expensive and data is visible to everyone. As a result most data is still stored off-chain in centralized databases, defeating the purpose of decentralization. Based on a groundbreaking MIT thesis, Enigma solves blockchain’s scalability and privacy issues from the protocol level by building a second-layer, off-chain network using “secret contracts”, allowing data to be processed by nodes while being kept private. Through this innovative architecture, Enigma has created a truly decentralized solution on which innovative applications can be built. More information can be found at www.enigma.co.

About Aion

The Aion network is a multi-tier blockchain network designed to support a future where many blockchains exist to solve unique industry problems and to power the services of the modern world. Aion will become the common protocol used for these blockchains, enabling more efficient and decentralized systems to be built. The Aion protocol enables the development of a federated blockchain network, making it possible to seamlessly integrate dissimilar blockchain systems in a multi-tier hub-and-spoke model, similar to the internet. For more information, please visit aion.network.