A review of the Working Groups

Sharing a few updates on developments over the past few months:

  • Oyster CVMs

    • Using the redesigned Oyster Control plane architecture to extend support for Sui in Oyster Control plane (code)
    • Porting the Sui and Solana contracts to latest version of oyster marketplace contracts on Arbitrum (code)
    • Encrypted storage experimentation with NFS
    • Sui integration for CLI and demo application done on testnet (code)
    • Building working prototypes for TEEs with EC2 instance attestations in addition to existing support for Nitro Enclaves (code)
  • Monitoring and Visualization

    • Development of the latest simplified deployment flow with blue images in frontend with support for features like initialization parameters and templates for docker-compose to be used for building enclaves with blue images (frontend, forum post)
    • Development of video demos to further improve developer adoption of Oyster CVMs.
  • Governance

    • Enclave based on-chain governance design
    • Rewrite Governance enclaves in rust. Enable voting privacy and resolve replay attacks (code)
  • Research

    • Experiment with EC2 instance attestations as an attestation mechanism in addition to the existing Nitro Enclaves attestations
    • Explore inner workings of Kubernetes and compile design notes for seamless integration of TEEs as a host with expected RBAC policy support for security