Introduction
SecretVM is Secret Network's solution for creating and running Confidential Virtual Machines.
Secret Network Confidential Virtual Machines (SecretVM)
SecretVM is the Confidential Virtual Machine framework of Secret Network, allowing developers to easily deploy and run secure workloads within Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). It brings the core benefits of smart contracts—verifiability, trustlessness, and data confidentiality—to general-purpose applications, without sacrificing flexibility or performance. With advancements in TEEs—such as Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) and AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV)—arbitrary workloads can now be executed securely and verifiably in a decentralized setting.
🔐 Key Benefits
Data Confidentiality TEEs ensure that even the owner of the physical hardware cannot access the data inside the VM.
Remote Attestation Every workload can be cryptographically verified to ensure it's running trusted code in a secure enclave.
Language & Stack Agnostic SecretVM supports Docker containers, allowing you to deploy applications in any language or framework.
Low Overhead
💡 Use Cases
Confidential VMs are ideal for a wide variety of privacy-preserving use cases, including:
AI & Machine Learning
Secure LLM inference, fine-tuning, and training
Deployment of autonomous AI agents
Confidential multi-agent coordination (e.g., MCP servers)
Finance & DeFi
Encrypted trading algorithms
Confidential portfolio management
Private credit scoring systems
Healthcare & Biomedical
Privacy-preserving medical data processing
Federated learning for diagnostic models
HIPAA-compliant AI applications
General Confidential Workloads Any computation that benefits from privacy, trustlessness, and verifiability can run on SecretVM—without constraints on tooling or performance.
SecretVM is currently under active development. As we progress, ongoing updates and enhancements are expected in the coming months.
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