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Secret Network Documentation

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Introduction

Secret Network offers scalable permissionless smart contracts with a private by default design— bringing novel use cases to blockchain not feasible on public systems. Secret Network enables users to take back ownership over their private (financial) information and for them to share this information with whom they trust. Secret Network was the first protocol to provide private smart contracts on mainnet, live since September 2020. Secret Network is Built with the Cosmos Software Development Kit (SDK) bringing Interoperable privacy to the entire Cosmos ecosystem. Secret Network uses a combination of the Intel SGX (Software Guard Extension) Trusted Execution Environment technology, several encryption schemes and key management to bring privacy by default to blockchain users. Secret Contracts are an implementation of the Rust based smart contract compiling toolkit CosmWasm, adding private metadata possibilities. Secret Network is powered by the Native public coin SCRT which is used for fees, Proof Of Stake security and Governance. With more than 20+ Dapps, 100+ full time builders and a strong grassroots community Secret Network aims to bring privacy to the masses.

Overview

In this documentation we will go over the basics behind the Secret Network technology, explain why privacy is important in Web3 and give an example of some use cases specific to private smart contracts. There are also sections dedicated to (smart contract) development, funding opportunities, the ecosystems partners and help with the running of infrastructure.

• Secret Network Overview
  • History
  • Why privacy for blockchain
  • Secret Network use cases
  • The blockchain components behind Secret Network
  • How Secret Network achieves computational privacy
• Ecosystem Overview
  • Funding
  • Community contributors & team
• Development
  • Testnet
  • Secret Contracts
  • Useful Libraries
  • SecretCLI
• Validators/Node Runners
  • Node setup
  • Monitoring
  • IBC relayers
  • Testnet

Join the community

• Telegram
• Twitter
• Discord
• Forum
• Blog
• Homepage

Secret Network is free software
****Everyone can participate on the open source software of Secret Network. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
The GNU Affero General Public License is based on the GNU GPL, but has an additional term to allow users who interact with the licensed software over a network to receive the source for that program.

Get the latest version: https://github.com/scrtlabs/SecretNetwork

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