Tor Bair of Secret on Why Private Smart Contracts Are Important - Ep.286

Secret Network is a privacy-first, permissionless layer 1 blockchain built for computational privacy. Tor Bair, founder of Secret Foundation, a developer of Secret Network, discusses what makes Secret Network unique, including smart contract privacy, private metadata for NFTs, and how regulators should treat privacy tech in blockchain. Show highlights:
how Tor fell down the crypto rabbit hole
what the Secret Network is and how it is bringing privacy to blockchain
why public blockchains are problematic
what makes Secret Network different from Monero or Zcash
how Secret Network works from a technical perspective
what type of applications Secret Network can support that public blockchains cannot
why blockchain voting is probably a bad idea (for now)
what attack vectors exist regarding Secret Network
how Secret Network nodes work and why there are only 50 of them
how Secret Network fixes miner extractable value (MEV)
what DeFi applications are possible on Secret Network
how NFTs on Secret Network are different from public blockchain NFTs
how regulators should treat Secret Network
 
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Episode Links
 
Tor Bair
Twitter

https://twitter.com/TorBair  

Website
http://www.torbair.com/

Medium
https://medium.com/@TorBai


Secret Network
Primers
Messari: 
https://messari.io/asset/secret-network/profile

https://messari.io/article/shhhhh-it-s-a-secret-network 

Decrypt: 

https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-secret-network-scrt-formerly-enigma 

Coin Monks:

https://medium.com/coinmonks/what-is-secret-network-bad9a233c481 

Tech Crunch: 

https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/03/in-the-race-towards-web-3-financial-privacy-secret-network-attracts-backing-from-key-players/ 


Introduction from Enigma/Secret
Article:

https://blog.enigma.co/introducing-secret-network-ed48621754ad 

Video: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c70BBVUCxxk 


Tech
Smart contracts → Secret contracts
https://scrt.network/blog/programmable-privacy/

Upcoming Supernova upgrade (November 9)

https://scrt.network/blog/supernova-explosive-vision-future-secret-network 

Secret NFTs (only the holder can view the NFT)
https://scrt.network/blog/secret-opensea-partner-nfts-world-renowned-artist

https://www.yahoo.com/now/secret-network-partners-opensea-launch-130000946.html 


SCRT Tokenomics

https://scrt.network/blog/secret-network-tokenomics-and-ecosystem-pool 

https://scrt.network/about/about-scrt 

Secret Network block-explorer/node explorer

https://secretnodes.com/secret/chains/secret-3 

Ecosystem

https://scrt.network/ecosystem/overview 

Graypaper

https://scrt.network/graypaper 

Node information

https://docs.scrt.network/node-guides/secret-nodes.html 

 
Enigma 
Original ICO
`https://icodrops.com/enigma/ 

Research

https://picoloresearch.com/upload/attachment/14614.pdf 

Enigma token swap

https://medium.com/staky-io/how-to-swap-eng-enigma-to-scrt-secret-f80d855992ef 

https://blog.enigma.co/enigma-announces-settlement-with-sec-and-successful-launch-of-enigma-mainnet-3811ef291705 

https://beincrypto.com/privacy-token-enigma-files-with-sec-after-settlement/ 


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