escrin

Escrin is a flexible, highly customizable, and programmable platform that leverages Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to facilitate secure off-chain computation and seamless data movement between blockchain networks and traditional web infrastructures (Web2). Recognizing the challenges posed by the proliferation of Layer 2 solutions and the resulting fragmentation of users and assets, Escrin offers a secure and efficient means to bridge these ecosystems.

By harnessing TEEs, Escrin ensures data confidentiality and integrity during computation while enabling high-performance processing essential for modern decentralized applications. Developers can conveniently deploy cross-chain workloads to TEE nodes they trust, enhancing efficiency and providing flexibility in deployment. This approach accommodates permissioned, permissionless, geographically restricted, and regulated environments, aligning with diverse regulatory requirements such as GDPR.

Escrin’s unique federated security model addresses the limitations of uniform decentralization, acknowledging that TEEs cannot be fully decentralized due to inherent vulnerabilities like side-channel and physical attacks. By enabling mutually interoperable sub-networks operated by trusted entities, Escrin allows for secure federated networks where participants trust the operators. This model supports convenient secret management alongside secure computation, empowering autonomous computing where the computation itself becomes the root of trust.

Through its integrated secret management and autonomous computation capabilities, Escrin acts as the “glia” between chains and Web2, facilitating blockchain-backed services with a user experience comparable to traditional web applications. It enables secure off-chain computations to process data moving between domains (Web2-Web3 or Web3-Web3), enhancing interoperability and efficiency.

In summary, Escrin stands as a robust solution that combines the security of TEEs with the flexibility of programmable, cross-chain computation. It offers developers and users a secure, efficient, and convenient platform for off-chain computation and data movement, fostering more integrated and user-friendly blockchain ecosystems.

Team

Nick Hynes

Project coordinator and lead developer, former tech lead at Oasis Network, a confidential L1 network; formerly AI x security PhD researcher at UC Berkeley; MEng and BSc in computer science from MIT with a focus on AI

Mitar Milutinovic

Developer and grant management, computer science PhD from UC Berkeley, expertise in computer security, blockchain, and AI


David Marn

Developer and tester, computer science BSc from UC Berkeley, expertise in privacy



Andrea Feher

UX researcher, ethnology and cultural anthropology MSc from University of Ljubljana, expertise in user centric design

Entity

PlastOsem (Layer8)

The mission of the Layer8 institute is to promote, enable, research, and develop an open society and organic technologies.

Website: https://plast8.si