I carefully read the foundation’s post from early this morning: Solana Confidential Compute is now open for testing. The official explanation is quite specific—a set of open-source tools for verifying on-chain whether “this computation ran on encrypted hardware,” so an application can decide whether to trust the result. The computation itself still happens off-chain; only a verifiable record is left on-chain.
They’ve also clearly spelled out the limitations: the verifier is currently available only on devnet, the security audit isn’t finished, and mainnet will have to wait until the audit is complete. For now, they recommend using it only for development. The website also offers a private chat you can try directly, without connecting a wallet. According to the instructions, this chat hasn’t yet gone through the on-chain verifier; the browser verifies the hardware attestation itself.
My take is that building something that can be independently verified is more meaningful than rushing to claim a large-scale launch. I’ll keep the two caveats—devnet and unaudited—in mind. $SOL
#SOL #PrivacyComputing
Would you try the private chat on the website first, or would you rather wait until mainnet launches and the audit is complete?
They’ve also clearly spelled out the limitations: the verifier is currently available only on devnet, the security audit isn’t finished, and mainnet will have to wait until the audit is complete. For now, they recommend using it only for development. The website also offers a private chat you can try directly, without connecting a wallet. According to the instructions, this chat hasn’t yet gone through the on-chain verifier; the browser verifies the hardware attestation itself.
My take is that building something that can be independently verified is more meaningful than rushing to claim a large-scale launch. I’ll keep the two caveats—devnet and unaudited—in mind. $SOL
#SOL #PrivacyComputing
Would you try the private chat on the website first, or would you rather wait until mainnet launches and the audit is complete?
