Hello to the Enigma community!

As you already know, the Enigma team has been very hard at work on developing our protocol and secret contracts. Our aim is to create the first platform for scalable, end-to-end decentralized applications — and that’s no easy task. (If you’re not that familiar with Enigma, you can learn more about us on our website and blog.)

Of course, it’s one thing to have a vision or a whitepaper. It’s quite another to execute on that vision and deploy real, world-changing solutions. Achieving our ambitious goals takes more than just hard work: it requires us to build the best technologies, the best team, the best community, and the best partners. That is why I am particularly excited to share our latest news.

Today we announce that Enigma is partnering with Intel on research and development efforts to advance development of privacy preserving computation technologies. As a part of this effort, Enigma will utilize Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions) in building our groundbreaking privacy technologies. With Enigma’s solutions, data is protected while still allowing for computation over the data as part of a scalable, secure solution.

Intel will be highlighting Enigma’s solutions during their keynote speech Thursday at Cyber Week 2018 in Tel Aviv, given by Rick Echevarria, Vice President, Software and Services Group and General Manager, Platforms Security Division at Intel Corporation. You can read more about this announcement and Enigma on Rick Echevarria’s blog in the Intel Newsroom. This presentation will be recorded, and we hope to share it with the Enigma community afterwards.

“Intel is committed to enabling business transformation by shortening the time-to-value from blockchain implementations and working with the industry to address privacy, security and scalability challenges. Enigma’s protocol approach is helping solve the challenges on public blockchain networks and improving data privacy and smart contract security.” — Rick Echevarria, Vice President, Software and Services Group and General Manager, Platforms Security Division at Intel Corporation

Both Intel and Enigma are committed to solving the largest challenges facing blockchains: privacy, security, and scalability. Enigma is excited to continue collaborating with Intel to advance our protocol and privacy technologies for public blockchains, as well as expanding and strengthening our working relationship. We look forward to sharing more information on further collaborations, events, and initiatives, as well as demonstrations of our solutions.

With our testnet launch approaching in the coming weeks, and as Enigma continues to build and approach the mainnet launch of our protocol in the second half of 2018, we are tirelessly working to bring many more exciting announcements like this to our community. Every day we have new conversations with exciting projects, innovative companies, and government entities looking to solve the world’s challenges through decentralized technology. Changing the world requires all of us working together.

We are always trying to justify the commitment and faith you have shown our project, and Enigma’s path forward has never looked brighter. Your support is everything to us. Our community — including our rapidly growing global team of Ambassadors! — is truly the critical piece to our success.

We hope you continue to support our project and team in the coming weeks and months as we build a better, more secure, decentralized future. Thank you for standing with us at the beginning of a long journey together.

Onwards and upwards,

Guy and the Enigma team