CanonOasis
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.
- 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.
- Smart contract.
- 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.