what's The Interfold?

The Interfold is a distributed network for confidential coordination, enabling independent parties to collaboratively compute verifiable outcomes from private inputs without data exposure, custody delegation, or trusted hardware reliance. It employs threshold cryptography and Encrypted Execution Environments (E3s) distributed across ciphernodes, which enforce execution under economic staking incentives. This provides strong privacy guarantees for multiplayer scenarios, distinguishing it from hardware-based solutions like TEEs or HSMs by rooting trust in cryptography and decentralized operators. Applications include secret ballots, sealed-bid auctions, and cross-institutional analytics, where inputs aggregate into concealed outcomes. Currently in internal testnet, the protocol advances toward public testnet and mainnet launch, integrating hybrid FHE-ZK techniques like GRECO for consistent proofs between encrypted computations and zero-knowledge witnesses.

The Interfold rebranded from Enclave to distinguish its trust model from hardware privacy solutions.