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SecretVM is Secret Network's solution for creating and running Confidential Virtual Machines.
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🤝 Introduction

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.

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