Automata Partners with Puffer Support to Work on Its SGX-Based Secure-Signer

Automata Network, a well-known forum offering private web facilities to Web3-based dApps, has recently announced an exclusive development. As per the company, it has joined forces with Puffer Finance (a restaking instrument that streamlines liquid restaking procedure) to operate on Secure Signer. The company took to X to reveal the news of this collaboration.

Very happy to be working with @puffer_finance on Secure-Signer to protect staking workflows using secure hardware ✧

Secure-Signer leverages Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and is the recipient of an @ethereum foundation grant.

Tap in ↓https://t.co/Ne5uefiiL6

— Automata Network – 2.0 (@AutomataNetwork) May 27, 2024

Automata and Puffer Collaborate for a Joint Work on SGX-Based Secure-Signer

In addition to the announcement on the social media platform, the firm also published a blog post on its website. It noted in its blog post that the platform will contribute to the Secure-Signer and further its development. Puffer is reportedly providing grant support for the respective project. According to Automata, Puffer operates as a remote signing anti-slashing tool. It reportedly leverages Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs).

Apart from that, it also works as an Ethereum Foundation Grant recipient. Automata pointed out that Secure-Signer presently operates in a secure enclave Intel SGX that leverages Remote Attestation Verification smart contracts. The project uses them to remotely verify the SGX attestations on the chain. As the reports reveal, Intel has a strategy to censure Enhanced Privacy ID by next year’s start.

Following that, it will base the next attestation workflows on Data Center Attestation Primitives. In the case of DCAP attestations, Automata has reportedly open-sourced a verifier on Solidity. Solidity runs as a resilient programming language that the developers use to build dApps for the biggest developer ecosystems. Validators take part in a protocol’s coordination and consensus.

Validators Can Operate Multiple Nodes with One Key to Avoid Downtime Penalties

Additionally, they mainly deal with signing just non-slashable messages and the optimization of uptime. Keeping that in view, if a validator infringes the network rules, the platform can pose a financial penalty for that.  Hence, the validators looking to evade downtime penalties can operate multiple nodes while using the same key. The platform assured that it would keep on working in close collaboration with the team behind Puffer.

In this way, it will reportedly contribute to enriching development and work on Secure-Signer. Along with that, it added that Puffer has additionally secured the Multi-Prover AVS of Automata with above 18,000 $ETH tokens that are restaked. In this respect, the AVS of Automata lies among the earliest onboarded projects on the liquid restaking forum.