Introducing Ciphernodes: Agents for Encrypted Execution

Enclave's Ciphernodes are a decentralized set of staked nodes that coordinate encrypted computation without trusted hardware or a central operator, and they never see the plaintext data or run the computation. Each Ciphernode participates in distributed key generation to create a public key for encrypting inputs, publishes threshold decryption shares to reconstruct only the final output, and discards its keys after each job. A random committee is selected per Encrypted Execution Environment (E3), while a separate Compute Provider runs the FHE program. The article says Ciphernodes will soon start a permissioned rollout with a limited number of early node operators, with permissionless registration planned later.