Announcing the Confidential Computing Constellation

Since the publication of the Secret 2.0 vision, we've hinted about a “constellation” of interconnected blockchains serving as a privacy hub for Web3.

Along with Fhenix, this vision has become a reality.

Learn more 👇

https://scrt.network/blog/confidential-computing-constellation

Tweet: https://twitter.com/SecretNetwork/status/1707071788037914875

Next week, SCRT Labs will be unveiling a new development roadmap for Secret Network, and presenting it live to the community on Discord!

Join the call to be the first to see what's in store for 2024 and beyond, and get your questions answered by SCRT Labs' CEO Alex Zaidelson!

Thursday, Oct 26th at 1pm UTC / 9am EDT
https://scrt.network/discord

Tweet: https://twitter.com/SecretNetwork/status/1715445600957649344

Starting now!

Join us at http://scrt.network/discord as SCRT Labs unveils the new development roadmap for Secret Network, live to the community on Discord!

Come be the first to know what is coming in 2024 and beyond!

Introducing a brand new development roadmap for Secret Network.

This plan aims to increase interoperability with EVM chains, integrate additional cryptographic technologies, and overall position Secret as a leader in web3 confidentiality.

https://scrt.network/blog/roadmap-2024

Tweet: https://twitter.com/SecretNetwork/status/1717570909605670964

Ready to start building EVM dApps with confidential computation? Check out our EVM Developer Toolkit!

https://scrt.network/secret-evm-ethereum

This new section in the Secret Network developer documentation shows how to take advantage of Secret’s Privacy as a Service capabilities, by utilizing cross-chain messaging with Axelar GMP.

The primary contract for your application can live on Ethereum, while a proxy contract on Secret can be communicated with in order to store and compute over encrypted data. This opens up new use-cases for EVM dApps that would otherwise be impossible to achieve on a transparent blockchain.

Need help with your code, or maybe just some inspiration? Join the Secret Network Discord community and check out the developer channels!

https://scrt.network/discord

What will you build?

Tweet: https://twitter.com/SecretNetwork/status/1720067019519807511

Attention Ethereum users - private DeFi on Secret just became even more accessible!

Shade Protocol just announced a massively improved bridging experience, support for wstETH, and new incentivized pools for ETH assets with boosted rewards (~32% APR at the time of this writing).

It’s now possible to start using the Shade Protocol DeFi suite with nothing more than some ETH and a MetaMask wallet. Benefit from privacy-preserving trading, lending, borrowing, stablecoins, and more!

Learn more: https://scrt.network/evm-shade-metamask-defi

Launch dApp: https://app.shadeprotocol.io/bridge

Tweet: https://twitter.com/Shade_Protocol/status/1720535523347849342

Attention CosmWasm developers - announcing a new Secret hackathon, sponsored by Shade Protocol and SCRT Labs, with $20k in prizes + $50k in grants available!

https://twitter.com/Shade_Protocol/status/1721920130358149456

The Shade Perpetual Swap Hackathon will run from November 16th to December 16th. The goal is to develop a proof of concept for a privacy-preserving perpetual swap platform using Secret smart contracts. If successful, the Hackathon winner will receive a grant from Shade Protocol and SCRT Labs to fully develop the project and launch it on mainnet.

For the full details, including registration information, see https://github.com/securesecrets/perpetual-swaps-hackathon/tree/main

We’ll let you in on a Secret…something that’s coming in the NEAR future…

We’re excited to announce a partnership with Octopus Network, which will bring Secret’s confidential computation to NEAR Protocol via Adaptive IBC, and mark the first direct connection between the NEAR and Cosmos ecosystems!

https://medium.com/oct-network/octopus-network-launches-adaptive-ibc-to-bridge-cosmos-with-near-07f063c40dbd

Tweet: https://twitter.com/SecretNetwork/status/1722983845811609637

Serenity Shield’s StrongBox is now live on mainnet!

This multi-chain application provides a decentralized solution to storing, retrieving, and transferring access to confidential data, and utilizes Secret Network smart contracts to achieve this.

Users can store data and retrieve it themselves, or set up designated nominees to inherit access to the data in the event of the owner no longer being able to access it themselves.

Try it out: https://strongbox.serenityshield.io/

Tweet: https://vxtwitter.com/SecretNetwork/status/1727397020271317075

Learn more in their white paper: https://assets-global.website-files.com/646e1d2bb86f8833c75bdc7b/655e43d973850f9cf58b1860_WP%20SERENITY%20SHIELD%20(En)-min.pdf

Introducing the new SCRT Labs Grants Program!

As the market shows signs of recovery, we believe it's the perfect moment to invest in innovation. The SCRT Labs Grants Program is here to support exceptional projects with financial, technical, and marketing assistance.

This new Grants Program is structured to empower exceptional projects through substantial resources. Less projects, more focus. We're looking for projects that benefit the ecosystem, utilize Secret's Privacy-as-a-Service capabilities, showcase innovation, and have a strong team.

Whether you're starting a new project or advancing an existing one, your contribution is vital to the Secret Network ecosystem. Submit a grant application today!

Blog: https://scrt.network/blog/scrt-labs-grants-program

Tweet: https://twitter.com/SecretNetwork/status/1730589380220260861

Secret Network governance proposal 287, “The 9% Temporary Inflation Proposal and Adjusting Blocks per Year”, has passed, resulting in an inflation rate decrease for SCRT!

https://www.mintscan.io/secret/proposals/287

This graph shows how this will affect the supply of SCRT over time:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GAwSzXnWsAAPj6u?format=png&name=medium

For more information on why this proposal was submitted, past discussion that the Secret community has had on the topic of inflation, and additional future plans for the tokenomics of SCRT, check out this blog post:

https://scrt.network/blog/inflation-change-proposal-287

Tweet: https://twitter.com/SecretNetwork/status/1732780791237574789

ALTER, a privacy-preserving communication dApp built on Secret, just published their updated roadmap for 2024!

https://blog.altermail.live/alter-2024-roadmap-17ea580e292a

They also just launched a new and improved website: https://alter.network

See what’s in store for 2024, and try out the ALTER dApp via their “Stake to Access” program, which provides free access to ALTER services via staking through their validator on various IBC networks.

If you’d like to join the ALTER community, using their dApp is the best way, but you can also join them on Telegram at https://www.tg-me.com/alterdapp.

Tweet: https://twitter.com/SecretNetwork/status/1734964648502321419

SCRT perpetual swaps are now live on Demex!

Tweet: https://twitter.com/demexchange/status/1735228549890757066

dApp: http://app.dem.exchange/trade/SCRT-PERP

Demex is a DEX built on Carbon, an IBC-connected blockchain focused on providing infrastructure for DeFi.

Demex is the first DEX to offer this type of DeFi product for SCRT. If you’re unfamiliar with perpetual swaps, also known as “perps”, check out the Demex documentation 👇

https://guide.dem.exchange/trade/futures

We’re excited to announce a partnership with Hacken, a highly respected blockchain security services company!

Through this partnership, Secret dApp developers can access exclusive benefits from Hacken’s security services. These benefits include:

- Audit discounts
- Priority queuing
- Bug bounty and triage services

In order to take advantage of these benefits, Secret dApp developers simply need to mention that they’re built on Secret Network when requesting a quote from Hacken.

Thanks to the Hacken team for helping to secure Secret Network dApps!

Blog: https://hacken.io/hacken-news/secret-network-partnership/

Tweet: https://twitter.com/SecretNetwork/status/1744446214383555029

Press Release: https://www.prweb.com/releases/strengthening-privacy-in-web3-through-the-secret-network-and-hacken-partnership-302031192.html

Announcing HackSecret 2024!

This hybrid online/in-person hackathon will take place from February 1st to March 3rd, and has a prize pool of $10,000!

There are currently two tracks:

- Privacy as a Service applications
- Native Secret applications

Anyone can participate in the online event by registering on our DoraHacks page. The in-person portion of the event will take place during ETHDenver, and we’ll have a physical location there for participants to come hang out and hack together. More information to follow on the in-person event.

Register now at https://dorahacks.io/hackathon/hacksecret2024/detail

We’re excited to announce the winning grant recipients of the SCRT Labs Grants Program Q1'24 Cohort!

https://scrt.network/blog/grants-program-q124

Development on these projects begins now! In the coming weeks, we'll be supporting these teams and providing the public with updates on their progress.

If you're interested in applying for the Q2'24 cohort, see our original grants blog for the full details:

https://scrt.network/blog/scrt-labs-grants-program

Tweet: https://twitter.com/SecretNetwork/status/1748015966527668433

Secret Network’s Privacy as a Service support is expanding!

We’re excited to join the Polygon Solution Provider Network, and connect with EVM developers who want to incorporate confidential computation into their Polygon dApps:

https://ecosystem.polygon.technology/9416223420/

By providing Polygon with privacy tooling, we're continuing to solidify our position as the privacy hub of web3.

Full details on the blog 👇

https://scrt.network/blog/polygon-spn/

If you’re a developer interested in building with privacy, reach out to us at https://scrt.network/contact!

Tweet: https://twitter.com/SecretNetwork/status/1750541837973029233

We’re excited to announce a partnership with Union, which will provide a new cross-chain communication solution for Secret’s Privacy as a Service capabilities!

This will give developers more options, and expand Secret's reach to new blockchain ecosystems!

Union is a sovereign interoperability layer, pioneering trustless bridging between appchains, L1s, and L2s without depending on trusted third parties, oracles, multi-signatures, or MPC. Looking to future-proof blockchain bridging, Union addresses the sovereign bridging trilemma, providing trustless, decentralized, and permissionless interoperability using state-of-the-art Zero-Knowledge cryptography.

As we continue to develop our Privacy as a Service architecture and integrate Union’s cutting-edge zkIBC connection, we’re paving the way for a new era of confidential computation in web3!

Union Tweet: https://twitter.com/union_build/status/1760348999280992728

https://x.com/SecretNetwork/status/1760350521615933551?s=20

Secret Network is headed to ETHDenver!

Join us for a week of #BUIDLing, networking, and educating the Ethereum community on the power of confidential computation!

https://scrt.network/ethdenver-2024/

Throughout the entire week we’ll have people at the Secret Network booth at the main ETHDenver event building. Come chat with us, learn about the opportunities that Secret Network provides, and pick up some Secret swag!

We’re also hosting a hackerhouse from February 26th to March 3rd. Come build with us and get 1-on-1 help from experienced Secret Network developers! Learn to build cross-chain applications that utilize confidential computation.

ETHDenver attendees also have the opportunity to participate in the #BUIDLathon, ETHDenver’s version of a hackathon. As a sponsor, Secret Network is submitting a bounty for this hackathon, titled “Confidential Computation Through Cross-Chain Communication”!

We're also co-hosting an educational TEE event with Oasis Network, Phala Network, and researcher Andrew Miller! Learn about the limitations of zero knowledge, the privacy-preserving use-cases that TEEs unlock for Web3, and network with us afterwards!

To get the full details on all of the above, plus even more events that Secret will be participating in, check out our ETHDenver landing page:

https://scrt.network/ethdenver-2024/

Tweet: https://twitter.com/SecretNetwork/status/1760667503548608977