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Ekiden: A Platform for Confidentiality-Preserving, Trustworthy, and Performant Smart Contracts

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.

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Authors: Raymond Cheng, Fan Zhang, Jernej Kos, Ari Juels, Andrew Miller, Dawn Song and collaborators
Date: 2019
Publisher: Raymond Cheng, Fan Zhang, Jernej Kos, Ari Juels, Andrew Miller, Dawn Song and collaborators
Version: Source cited by the 2019 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0059
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Cheng, R., Zhang, F., Kos, J., Juels, A., Miller, A., Song, D., & collaborators (2019). Ekiden: A Platform for Confidentiality-Preserving, Trustworthy, and Performant Smart Contracts. Raymond Cheng, Fan Zhang, Jernej Kos, Ari Juels, Andrew Miller, Dawn Song and collaborators. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.05141

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@techreport{ekiden2019,
  title = {Ekiden: A Platform for Confidentiality-Preserving, Trustworthy, and Performant Smart Contracts},
  author = {Raymond Cheng, Fan Zhang, Jernej Kos, Ari Juels, Andrew Miller, Dawn Song and collaborators},
  year = {2019},
  institution = {Raymond Cheng, Fan Zhang, Jernej Kos, Ari Juels, Andrew Miller, Dawn Song and collaborators},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.05141},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/ekiden}
}

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